HR 261
106th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Commerce
Consumer education
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Feed contamination
Feeds
Food adulteration and inspection
Grazing
Labeling
Livestock
Livestock industry
Meat
Poultry
Poultry industry
Sewage as fertilizer
Sewage sludge
Waste disposal sites
To amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the egg, meat, and poultry inspection laws to ensure that consumers receive notification regarding food products produced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on land on which sewage sludge was applied.
Introduced: January 6, 1999
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 11, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
Feb 11, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.
Jan 19, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Jan 6, 1999
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 6, 1999
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to deem food, eggs, egg products, meat, meat products, and poultry products adulterated if they are produced, or are from poultry or livestock that consumed feed produced, on land on which sewage sludge was applied unless certain requirements are met.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.