Title: Keep Food Safe from Glyphosate Act of 2019
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Keep Food Safe from Glyphosate Act of 2019
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a permanent tolerance for the use of glyphosate on oats not to exceed 0.1 parts per million. The labeling for pesticides containing glyphosate must include specific wording, or shall be considered misbranded and subject to enforcement procedures.
The bill also requires the Department of Agriculture to annually test foods that are most likely to be consumed by infants and children (e.g., oats) for residues of glyphosate.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1783 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1783

To provide for increased scrutiny with respect to pesticide residues of 
                  glyphosate, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2019

 Ms. DeLauro introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for increased scrutiny with respect to pesticide residues of 
                  glyphosate, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keep Food Safe from Glyphosate Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. RESTORING PREVIOUS TOLERANCE FOR GLYPHOSATE ON OATS.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, pursuant to section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act (21 U.S.C. 346a), shall establish a permanent tolerance for the use 
of glyphosate on oats not to exceed 0.1 parts per million.
    (b) Glyphosate Defined.--In this section, the term ``glyphosate'' 
means glyphosate acid (CAS number 1071-83-6) [N-phosphonomethyle) 
glycine], an herbicide belonging to the phosphono amino acid class of 
pesticides that can be associated with different counter cations to 
form salts.

SEC. 3. LABELING CHANGES.

    Beginning not later than one year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, a pesticide containing glyphosate (as defined in section 
2(b)) is misbranded within the meaning of section 2(q) of the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136(q)) if its 
labeling does not include, in a clear and conspicuous manner, the 
following statement: ``Unlawful to apply this product prior to harvest 
of oats.''.

SEC. 4. INCREASED TESTING FOR GLYPHOSATE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              AGRICULTURE.

    Section 301 of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (21 U.S.C. 
346a note) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(d) Annual Glyphosate Testing.--Beginning not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of the Keep Food Safe from Glyphosate 
Act of 2019, and each year thereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall, as part of the residue data collection activities conducted 
under subsection (c), with respect to foods most likely consumed by 
infants and children (including oats and oat-based products), test for 
residues of glyphosate (as defined in section 2 of the Keep Food Safe 
from Glyphosate Act of 2019).''.
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