Consumer Food Safety Act of 2005
Latest action · May 23, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 10, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Consumer Food Safety Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) administer a national program to protect human health by ensuring that the food industry has effective programs to assure the safety of food; (2) prescribe regulations regarding harmful substances in food, registration of facilities, sanitary food processing, proper labeling, processing controls, and inspections of registered facilities; (3) establish tolerances to limit the quantity of contaminants in food; (4) establish a system to ensure the safety of imported food; (5) include food in an active surveillance system; (6) establish guidelines for a sampling system of food products; (7) rank food categories based on their health hazard and identify approaches to minimize such hazards; and (8) design and implement a food safety education program.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require notification of the Secretary of any adulterated or misbranded food. Sets forth provisions regarding ceasing distribution of food, recalls, and civil penalties for violations of this Act.
Prohibits any person from being discriminated against because that person participated in any way in carrying out the purpose of specified federal food laws or refused to violate any law, rule, or regulation.
Allows the Secretary to impose traceability requirements on a type or class of food product as necessary to assure the protection of the public health.
Allows civil actions against the Secretary for failing to perform any non-discretionary act or duty to ensure the safety of food products.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 10, 2005 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 23, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 23, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 10, 2005Introduced in House
- May 10, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish a comprehensive program to ensure the safety of food products intended for human consumption which are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Consumer Food Safety Act of 2005
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Authorization
- Business records
- Citizen lawsuits
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer complaints
- Consumer education
- Damages
- Defective products
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disciplining of employees
- Discrimination in employment
- District courts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Employee training
- Evidence (Law)
- Exports
- Federal aid to research
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food industry
- Food safety
- Foodborne diseases
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Grocery trade
- Health
- Health education
- Imports
- International Affairs
- Judicial review
- Jurisdiction
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal fees
- Licenses
- Medical research
- Packaging
- Public service advertising
- Quality control
- Reciprocity
- Restaurants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Signs and symbols
- State employees
- State laws
- Trade agreements
- Whistle blowing
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 10, 2005Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.