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HR 6636 110th Congress House Agriculture and Food Consumer affairs Food supply, safety, and labeling Genetics

Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act

Introduced: July 29, 2008 See on congress.gov
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Oct 3, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
Oct 3, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Jul 30, 2008
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1596-1597)
Jul 29, 2008
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.
Jul 29, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 29, 2008
Introduced in House
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 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. Requires the periodic testing of such foods transferred along a chain of distribution to assure accuracy of labels, subject to specified exceptions. 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, exempting recipients who accept a guarantee of the absence of genetically engineered material in good faith or producers whose food inadvertently becomes contaminated by genetically engineered material. Authorizes citizen suits as specified.

What's happening now October 3, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 5
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Sánchez, Linda T.
California · Jul 29, 2008
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jul 29, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6636: Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-6636/
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"H.R. 6636: Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-6636/.
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