‘‘(C) The animal is slaughtered and other-
wise processed in the United States.
‘‘(4) IMPORTED
MEAT.—The term ‘imported
meat’ means a carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or
meat food product that does not satisfy the defini-
tion of domestic meat.
‘‘(5) IMPORTED
LIVESTOCK.—The term ‘im-
ported livestock’ means livestock that does not sat-
isfy the definition of domestic livestock.
‘‘(6) ULTIMATE PURCHASER.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘ultimate
purchaser’, with regard to a carcass, part of a
carcass, meat, or meat food product, means—
‘‘(i) a person who buys the item for
consumption;
‘‘(ii) a public or private institution
that serves the item for consumption; or
‘‘(iii) a restaurant or other food serv-
ice establishment that serves the item for
consumption.
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—Other than as provided
in clauses (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (A), the
term does not include a person who buys a car-
cass, part of a carcass, meat, or meat food
product for resale.
‘‘(b) COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN LABEL REQUIRED.—
‘‘(1) PURPOSE.—Country-of-origin labels are
required under this section so that the ultimate pur-
chasers of meat and meat food products in the
United States are accurately informed of the country
of origin of the livestock from which meat and meat
food products are derived.
‘‘(2) INITIAL USE OF LIVESTOCK.—A packer or
processor that uses livestock to produce a carcass,
part of a carcass, meat, or meat food product that
is offered for sale, sold, or resold within the United
States, either in its original form or in a further
processed form, shall affix a label to the carcass,
part of a carcass, meat, or meat food product that
identifies the country or countries in which the live-
stock were born, raised, and slaughtered from which
the carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or meat food
product was derived.
‘‘(3) USE OF DOMESTIC MEAT OR IMPORTED
MEAT.—A packer or processor that uses domestic
meat or imported meat to produce a carcass, part of
a carcass, meat, or meat food product that is offered
for sale, sold, or resold within the United States, ei-
ther in its original form or in a further processed
form, shall affix a label to the carcass, part of a car-
cass, meat, or meat food product that identifies the
country or countries in which the livestock were
born, raised, and slaughtered from which the domes-
tic meat or imported meat was derived.
‘‘(c) MAINTENANCE OF LABEL.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A packer or processor re-
ferred to in subsection (b), and each subsequent re-
seller of the carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or
meat food product, shall be responsible for ensuring
that the country-of-origin label is maintained
throughout the chain of distribution until the car-
cass, carcass part, meat, or meat food product is
sold to the ultimate purchaser.
‘‘(2) EXCEPTIONS.—Institutions that serve
meat or meat food products for consumption and
restaurants and other food service establishments
shall neither be required to, nor restricted from, no-
tifying their customers of the country of origin of
the meat or meat food products they serve.
‘‘(d) RESTRICTION
ON USE
OF UNITED STATES
MEAT LABEL.—A carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or
meat food product may not bear a label identifying the
carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or meat food product as
United States meat unless it consists entirely of domestic
meat.
‘‘(e) TREATMENT
OF IMPORTED MEAT
AND IM-
PORTED LIVESTOCK.—In the case of imported meat, the
country-of-origin label required by this section shall also
identify the country or countries from which the livestock,
carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or meat food product (as
the case may be) was imported into the United States.
In the case of live imported livestock imported into the
United States for slaughter, whether fed for a time in the
United States and slaughtered or imported only for
slaughter, the country-of-origin label shall also identify the
country or countries from which the livestock were im-
ported into the United States.
‘‘(f) TREATMENT OF BLENDED PRODUCTS.—In the
case of a blended meat or meat food product, the country-
of-origin label required by this section shall list the coun-
try or countries of origin of the livestock from which the
blended meat or meat food product was derived, in de-
scending order of predominance therein.
‘‘(g) LABEL DESCRIPTION AND PLACEMENT.—In the
case of a carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or meat food
product offered for sale to an ultimate purchaser, the
country-of-origin label shall be placed on the carcass, part
of the carcass, meat, or meat food product, or its imme-
diate package or container, in such a location that the
label is clearly visible to the ultimate purchaser. The coun-
try-of-origin lettering shall be of a size at least equal to
other lettering contained on the carcass, meat, or meat
food product, or its immediate package or container.
‘‘(h) RELATION TO INSPECTION STAMP.—An inspec-
tion stamp required under section 7 shall not be a sub-
stitute for the country-of-origin label, and shall not be rep-
resented by anyone as proof or certification of the country
of origin of the livestock from which a carcass, part of
a carcass, meat, or meat food product is derived.’’.
(b) INCLUSION OF COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN REQUIRE-
MENTS IN DEFINITION OF MISBRANDED.—Section 1(n) of
the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601(n)) is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph
(11);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (12) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(13) if it fails to bear a country-of-origin label
as required by section 7A.’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect 60 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act.
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