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Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act

Introduced: November 16, 1999 See on congress.gov

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Nov 30, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

Nov 22, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.

Nov 22, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research and Specialty Crops.

Nov 16, 1999

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, 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.

Nov 16, 1999

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), and the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) to deem a food misbranded if it contains or was produced with a genetically engineered material unless its labeling contains statements meeting specified requirements. Excludes, in all three Acts, food: (1) served in restaurants; or (2) prepared primarily in a retail establishment, ready for human consumption, but not offered for sale for immediate consumption in the establishment. Excludes, for the FDCA, a medical food as defined in the Orphan Drug Act.

Subjects violators to civil monetary penalties. Exempts from the penalties: (1) any person (recipient) who establishes a guaranty or undertaking signed by the person (residing in the United States) from whom the recipient in good faith received the food to the effect that the food does not contain or was not produced with a genetically engineered material; and (2) for the FDCA, an agricultural producer of a food that does not contain and was not produced with a genetically engineered material if the food becomes contaminated with a genetically engineered material (including by mingling the two), so long as the contamination was neither intentional nor negligent.

What's happening now November 30, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

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