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Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act

Introduced Mar 14, 2002 Originated Senate Sponsor Tom Harkin D-IA

Latest action · Mar 14, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Progress

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IntroducedMar 14, 2002
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, respectively, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) prescribe initial and final pathogen performance standards for raw meat and raw poultry, and meat and poultry products processed in establishments inspected under such Acts; (2) identify, and publish a list of, such pathogens; (3) initiate pathogen surveys to determine existing levels of meat and poultry contamination; and (4) perform microbial compliance testing at such establishments, and prohibit non-complying establishments from labeling such products as "inspected and passed."

Directs the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee for Microbiology Criteria for Foods.

Cosponsors 7

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2002 to Jul 30, 2002; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Charles E. Schumer	Original	Mar 14, 2002
D-NY	Hillary Rodham Clinton	Original	Mar 14, 2002
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin	Original	Mar 14, 2002
D-MN	Paul D. Wellstone		Jun 27, 2002
D-PA	Arlen Specter		Jul 10, 2002
D-WI	Russell D. Feingold		Jul 26, 2002
D-WI	Herb Kohl		Jul 30, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
Senate	Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee	Referred Mar 14, 2002

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 14, 2002Introduced in Senate
Mar 14, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1936)
Mar 14, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Senate	Debate and remarks S1936	Richard J. Durbin D-IL, Tom Harkin D-IA	Mar 14, 2002

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 107-548	T'UF SHUR BIEN PRESERVATION TRUST AREA ACT116 pages	Indian Affairs Committee · Energy and Natural Resources Committee	Apr 24, 2002
S. Hrg. 107-761	AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2003803 pages	Appropriations Committee	Feb 27, 2002–Mar 20, 2002

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 3956	Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act	Identical bill	Mar 26, 2002

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe performance standards for the reduction of pathogens in meat, meat products, poultry, and poultry products processed by establishments receiving inspection services.
Short Titles as Introduced: Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 14, 2002Introduced in Senate

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