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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6747 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to establish a standard of identify 
for individual grades of olive oil and a grade standard for individual 
olive oil and olive-pomace oil grades, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 16, 2025 
Mr. HARDER of California (for himself and Mr. VALADAO) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 
to establish a standard of identify for individual grades 
of olive oil and a grade standard for individual olive 
oil and olive-pomace oil grades, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Olive Oil Standards 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. STANDARDS OF IDENTIFY AND GRADE STANDARDS 
FOR OLIVE OIL. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
STANDARDS
OF
IDEN-
TIFY.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services, act-
ing through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (in this 
section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), shall establish a 
standard of identify under section 401 of the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 341) for indi-
vidual grades of olive oil. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF GRADE STANDARDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
for commercial producers, bottlers, and marketers in 
the United States a grade standard for individual 
olive oil and olive-pomace oil grades. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The grade standards shall in-
clude the following: 
(A) Quality and purity parameters for the 
following olive oil and olive-pomace oil grades: 
(i) Extra virgin olive oil. 
(ii) Virgin olive oil. 
(iii) Olive oil. 
(iv) Refined olive oil. 
(v) Lampante olive oil. 
(vi) Olive-pomace oil. 
(vii) Refined olive-pomace oil. 
(viii) Crude olive-pomace oil. 
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(B) Methods of analysis, according to 
American Oil Chemist Society, International 
Organization for Standardization, or Inter-
national Olive Oil Council accreditation meth-
ods, to determine the characteristics of olive oils 
and olive-pomace oils. 
(C) Mandatory labeling requirements that 
are— 
(i) consistent with the establishment 
of grade standards under this paragraph; 
and 
(ii) in compliance with the require-
ments of subchapters A, B, D, E, and F 
of part 101 of title 21, Code of Federal 
Regulations (or successor regulations). 
(3) SPECIAL RULES.— 
(A) EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL.—The qual-
ity parameters developed for extra virgin olive 
oil under paragraph (2)(A)(i) shall include 
pyropheophytin a (PPP) and 1,2 diacylglycerols 
(DAG) parameters. 
(B) LABELING.—In developing labeling 
standards under paragraph (2)(C), the Sec-
retary shall ensure that— 
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(i) the name of the product is con-
sistent with the stated grade; and 
(ii) the descriptions of the product on 
the package avoid inappropriate and mis-
leading messages. 
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
transmit to Congress a report on the actions taken under 
this section. 
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