HR 4855
110th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Cloning
Commerce
Commercialization
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Exports
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Governmental investigations
Health
Meat
Medical research
Milk
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
To require studies by the Secretary of Agriculture on the effects of food products from cloned animals entering the food supply.
Introduced: December 19, 2007
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6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 25, 2008
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Apr 25, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
Apr 25, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Dec 19, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 19, 2007
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and 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.
Dec 19, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct studies on: (1) the economic and trade impact of exports of food products from cloned animals; (2) Department of Agriculture programs to monitor products from cloned animals in the food supply; (3) the health effects and costs attributable to milk from cloned animals in the food supply; and (4) the safety of food products derived from cloned animals.
What's happening now
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Cosponsors
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