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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 737 
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 
FEBRUARY 4, 2015 
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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sewage Sludge in Food 
Production Consumer Notification Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION TO CONSUMERS OF FOOD PROD-
UCTS PRODUCED ON LAND ON WHICH SEW-
AGE 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: 
‘‘(j)(1) Effective one year after the date of the enact-
ment of the Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer 
Notification Act, if it is a food (intended for human con-
sumption and offered for sale) that was produced, or con-
tains 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 in-
dicates that the food, or an ingredient of the 
food, was produced on land on which sewage 
sludge was applied; or 
‘‘(C) in the case of a raw agricultural com-
modity or other food generally offered for sale 
without labeling, a sign is posted within close 
proximity of the food to notify consumers that 
the food, or an ingredient of the food, was pro-
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duced on land on which sewage sludge was ap-
plied. 
‘‘(2) In this paragraph, the term ‘sewage sludge’ has 
the meaning given to such term in section 503.9(w) of title 
40, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regula-
tions).’’. 
(b) ADULTERATED FOOD UNDER EGG PRODUCTS 
INSPECTION ACT.—Section 4 of the Egg Products Inspec-
tion Act (21 U.S.C. 1033) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (7); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
subparagraph (8) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(9) effective one year after the date of the en-
actment of the Sewage Sludge in Food Production 
Consumer Notification Act, if it is derived from 
poultry that were raised, or that consumed animal 
feed 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 poultry began to be 
raised on the land or the date on which the pro-
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