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‘‘(A) help to ensure coverage of the safety of
the food supply chain, including those establish-
ments regulated by the States and localities that
are not regulated under this Act; and
‘‘(B) reduce duplicative regulatory efforts.
‘‘(g) MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION OF RECORDS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The responsible party shall
maintain records related to each report received, noti-
fication made, and report submitted to the Secretary
under this section for at least 2 years.
‘‘(2) INSPECTION.—A responsible party shall, at
the request of the Secretary, permit inspection of
records maintained under paragraph (1).
‘‘(h) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION.—Section 552 of
title 5, United States Code, shall apply to any request for
information regarding a record in the Registry.
‘‘(i) SAFETY REPORT.—A report or notification under
subsection (d) may be accompanied by a statement, which
shall be part of any report released for public disclosure,
that denies that the report or the notification constitutes
an admission that the product involved caused or contrib-
uted to a death, serious injury, or serious illness.
‘‘(j) ADMISSION.—A report or notification under this
section shall not be considered an admission that the report-
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able food involved is adulterated, misbranded, or caused or
contributed to a death, serious injury, or serious illness.
‘‘(k) HOMELAND SECURITY NOTIFICATION.—If, after
receiving a report under subsection (d), the Secretary be-
lieves the reportable food may have been deliberately adul-
terated or misbranded, the Secretary shall—
‘‘(1) immediately notify the Secretary of Home-
land Security; and
‘‘(2) make relevant information from the Reg-
istry available to the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity.
‘‘(l) VIOLATIONS.—A responsible party that fails to
comply with any requirement of this section shall be subject
to an appropriate penalty under section 406.’’.
(2) POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT.—The
Poultry Products Inspection Act is amended by in-
serting after section 10 (21 U.S.C. 459) the following:
‘‘SEC. 10A. REPORTABLE FOOD EVENT.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) REPORTABLE FOOD.—The term ‘reportable
food’ means poultry or a poultry product under this
Act for which there is a reasonable probability that
the use of, or exposure to, the poultry or poultry prod-
uct will cause serious adverse health consequences or
death to humans or animals.
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‘‘(2) REGISTRY.—The term ‘Registry’ means the
registry established under subsection (b).
‘‘(3) RESPONSIBLE PARTY.—The term ‘respon-
sible party’, with respect to a reportable food, means
an operator of an official establishment.
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after
the date of enactment of the Food and Energy Secu-
rity Act of 2007, the Secretary shall establish within
the Department of Agriculture a Reportable Poultry
Registry to which information concerning reportable
food may be submitted via an electronic portal,
from—
‘‘(A) employees of the Food Safety and In-
spection Service;
‘‘(B) Federal, State, and local public health
officials; and
‘‘(C) responsible parties.
‘‘(2) REVIEW
BY
SECRETARY.—The Secretary
shall promptly review and assess the information sub-
mitted under paragraph (1) for the purposes of—
‘‘(A) identifying reportable food;
‘‘(B) submitting entries to the Registry;
‘‘(C) taking actions under subsection (c);
and
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‘‘(D) exercising other food safety authority
of the Secretary to protect the health and safety
of humans and animals.
‘‘(c) ISSUANCE OF AN ALERT BY THE SECRETARY.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall issue, or
cause to be issued, an alert or a notification with re-
spect to a reportable food using information from the
Registry as the Secretary considers necessary to pro-
tect the health and safety of humans and animals.
‘‘(2) EFFECT.—Paragraph (1) shall not affect
the authority of the Secretary to issue an alert or a
notification under any other provision of law.
‘‘(d) REPORTING AND NOTIFICATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), as soon as practicable, but in no case later
than 24 hours after a responsible party determines
that poultry or poultry product is a reportable food,
the responsible party shall—
‘‘(A) submit a report to the Secretary
through the Registry that includes information
described in subsection (e) (other than the infor-
mation described in paragraphs (7), (8), and (9)
of that subsection); and
‘‘(B) investigate the cause of the event that
caused the poultry or poultry product to be a re-
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portable food, if the reportable food originated
with the responsible party.
‘‘(2) NO
REPORT
REQUIRED.—A responsible
party shall not be required to submit a report under
paragraph (1) if—
‘‘(A) the adulteration or misbranding origi-
nated with the responsible party;
‘‘(B) the responsible party detected the adul-
teration or misbranding prior to any transfer to
another person of the poultry or poultry product;
and
‘‘(C) the responsible party—
‘‘(i) corrected the adulteration or mis-
branding; or
‘‘(ii) destroyed or caused the destruc-
tion of the poultry or poultry product.
‘‘(3) REPORT NUMBER.—The Secretary shall en-
sure that, upon submission of a report under para-
graph (1), a unique number is issued through the
Registry to the person submitting the report, by which
the Secretary is able—
‘‘(A) to link reports about the reportable
food submitted and amended under this sub-
section; and