Title: A bill to require the establishment of a working group to evaluate the food safety threat posed by beef and poultry imported from Brazil, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a working group to (1) evaluate the food safety threat posed by beef and poultry imported from Brazil, and (2) make recommendations regarding whether or not the importation of beef and poultry from Brazil should be permitted. The bill also suspends imports of beef and poultry from Brazil until the working group submits its recommendations to USDA.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1124 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1124

 To require the establishment of a working group to evaluate the food 
 safety threat posed by beef and poultry imported from Brazil, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2019

  Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the establishment of a working group to evaluate the food 
 safety threat posed by beef and poultry imported from Brazil, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WORKING GROUP ON BEEF AND POULTRY IMPORTED FROM BRAZIL.

    (a) Establishment of Working Group.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
        establish a working group--
                    (A) to evaluate the food safety threat posed by 
                beef, beef products, poultry, and poultry products 
                imported from Brazil; and
                    (B) to make recommendations to the Secretary with 
                respect to whether the importation of beef, beef 
                products, poultry, and poultry products from Brazil 
                into the United States should be permitted.
            (2) Membership.--The Secretary shall ensure that the 
        working group established under paragraph (1) includes--
                    (A) experts on food safety; and
                    (B) representatives of U.S. Customs and Border 
                Protection and other Federal agencies with 
                responsibilities relating to international trade.
    (b) Temporary Suspension of Imports.--Beef, beef products, poultry, 
and poultry products imported from Brazil may not enter the United 
States during the period--
            (1) beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act; and
            (2) ending on the date on which the working group 
        established under subsection (a)(1) submits to the Secretary 
        the recommendations required by subparagraph (B) of that 
        subsection.
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