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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 172
To amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the egg, meat, and poultry
inspection laws to ensure that consumers receive notification regarding
food products produced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on land
on which sewage sludge was applied.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 3, 2001
Mr. SERRANO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on
Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker,
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the egg,
meat, and poultry inspection laws to ensure that con-
sumers receive notification regarding food products pro-
duced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on land
on which sewage sludge was applied.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. NOTIFICATION TO CONSUMERS OF FOOD
PRODUCTS PRODUCED ON LAND ON WHICH
SEWAGE SLUDGE HAS BEEN APPLIED.
(a) ADULTERATED FOOD UNDER FEDERAL FOOD,
DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT.—Section 402 of the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 342) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(h)(1) Effective one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this subsection, if it is a food (intended for human
consumption and offered for sale) that was produced, or
contains any ingredient that was produced, on land on
which sewage sludge was applied, unless—
‘‘(A) the application of sewage sludge to the
land terminated more than one year before the date
on which the production of the food or ingredient on
the land commenced;
‘‘(B) the food bears a label that clearly indi-
cates that the food, or an ingredient of the food, was
produced on land on which sewage sludge was ap-
plied; or
‘‘(C) in the case of a raw agricultural com-
modity or other food generally offered for sale with-
out labeling, a sign is posted within close proximity
of the food to notify consumers that the food, or an
ingredient of the food, was produced on land on
which sewage sludge was applied.’’.
(b) ADULTERATED FOOD UNDER EGG PRODUCTS
INSPECTION ACT.—Section 4(a) of the Egg Products In-
spection Act (21 U.S.C. 1033(a)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph
(7);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (8) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(9) effective one year after the date of the en-
actment of this paragraph, if it is derived from poul-
try that were raised, or that consumed animal feed
produced, on land on which sewage sludge was ap-
plied, unless—
‘‘(A) the application of sewage sludge to
the land terminated more than one year before
the date on which the poultry began to be
raised on the land or the date on which the pro-
duction of the animal feed on the land com-
menced; or
‘‘(B) the container bears a label that clear-
ly indicates that the egg or egg product was de-
rived from poultry that—
‘‘(i) were raised on land on which sew-
age sludge was applied; or