Title: Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2019
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2019
This bill prohibits the use of perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (commonly referred to as PFAS) in food contact substances. A food contact substance is a substance intended for use as a component of materials used in manufacturing, packing, packaging, transporting, or holding food if such use is not intended to have a technical effect in such food.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2827 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2827

     To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem any 
  perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance used as a food contact 
substance to be unsafe and therefore treated as adulterated under such 
                      Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2019

 Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem any 
  perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance used as a food contact 
substance to be unsafe and therefore treated as adulterated under such 
                      Act, 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 Containers Safe from PFAS 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST FOOD CONTACT SUBSTANCES CONTAINING 
              PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES.

    Paragraph (6) of section 409(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 348(h)(6)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(6)'' and inserting ``(6)(A) 
        Definition.--''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(B) Perfluorinated Compounds.--
            ``(i) Deemed unsafe.--Beginning on January 1, 2022, any 
        PFAS used as a food contact substance is deemed to be unsafe 
        for the purposes of this section and the application of clause 
        (2)(C) of section 402(a).
            ``(ii) Definitions.--In this subparagraph:
                    ``(I) The term `PFAS' means a perfluoroalkyl 
                substance or a polyfluoroalkyl substance that is man-
                made with at least 1 fully fluorinated carbon atom.
                    ``(II) The term `perfluoroalkyl substance' means a 
                man-made chemical of which all of the carbon atoms are 
                fully fluorinated carbon atoms.
                    ``(III) The term `polyfluoroalkyl substance' means 
                a man-made chemical containing a mix of fully 
                fluorinated carbon atoms, partially fluorinated carbon 
                atoms, and nonfluorinated carbon atoms.''.
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