HR 3553 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act

Introduced Dec 2, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Dennis J. Kucinich D-OH

Fact sheet

Latest action · Dec 9, 2011 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.

  1. IntroducedDec 2, 2011
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act 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 purposes of the FFDCA, 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.

Cosponsors 31

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 2, 2011 to Nov 16, 2012, with 12 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-MEChellie PingreeOriginalDec 2, 2011
R-AKDon YoungOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-CAFortney Pete StarkOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-CAJackie SpeierOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-VAJames P. MoranOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-COJared PolisOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-NYLouise McIntosh SlaughterOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-CALynn C. WoolseyOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-CAMaxine WatersOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-CAMike ThompsonOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-AZRaúl M. GrijalvaOriginalDec 2, 2011
D-CABob FilnerDec 16, 2011
D-TNSteve CohenDec 16, 2011
D-ORPeter A. DeFazioJan 18, 2012
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Dec 9, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Dec 2, 2011Introduced in House
  3. Dec 2, 2011Referred 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.

Subjects

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

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Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Dec 2, 2011Introduced in House

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