HR 4749 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Truth in Certification for Foreign Food Ingredients Act

Introduced Jan 9, 2018 Originated House Sponsor Darren Soto D-FL

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 24, 2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedJan 9, 2018
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Truth in Certification for Foreign Food Ingredients Act

This bill amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to require the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to carry out a program to enhance transparency and traceability of food products and ingredients that are exported to the United States in order to protect consumers and food manufacturers against mislabeling, adulteration, and fraud.

Under the program, the FAS must provide foreign government officials, agricultural producers, and exporters of food products and ingredients to the United States with technical assistance and best practices to improve: (1) transparency, traceability and fraud prevention; and (2) cooperation with private certification and verification bodies to ensure the accuracy and integrity of their food product and ingredient certification and verification.

Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 24, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
  2. Jan 9, 2018Introduced in House
  3. Jan 9, 2018Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Subjects

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

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  1. Jan 9, 2018Introduced in House

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