Congress 107 - HR 4814 - Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act

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Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Agriculture and Food Animals Citizen lawsuits Commerce Consumer education Department of Agriculture Fines (Penalties) Food adulteration and inspection Food contamination Genetic engineering Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Injunctions Judicial review of administrative acts Labeling Law Legal fees Livestock Meat inspection Parties to actions Poultry inspection Public Lands and Natural Resources Science, Technology, Communications Transgenic animals Transgenic plants

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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.

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Jun 4, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
Jun 4, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
Jun 3, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
May 22, 2002

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.
May 22, 2002

Introduced in House

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