Title: Cell-Cultured Meat and Poultry Regulation Act of 2019
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Cell-Cultured Meat and Poultry Regulation Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to enter into a binding formal agreement regarding the authority of each agency to oversee cell-cultured meat and poultry.
The agreement must require the FDA to (1) oversee cell collection, cell banks, and cell growth and differentiation; and (2) transition oversight authority of food products at the beginning of the cell harvest stage to USDA. After the transition, USDA must oversee the processing, preparation, packaging, and labeling of the food products.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1056 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1056

To clarify oversight and jurisdiction over the regulation, inspection, 
and labeling of cell-cultured meat and poultry, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 4, 2019

Mrs. Hyde-Smith introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify oversight and jurisdiction over the regulation, inspection, 
and labeling of cell-cultured meat and poultry, 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 ``Cell-Cultured Meat and Poultry 
Regulation Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Commissioner.--The term ``Commissioner'' means the 
        Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
            (2) Food product.--The term ``food product'' means a cell-
        cultured food product derived from livestock or poultry.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Agriculture.

SEC. 3. FOOD SAFETY INSPECTION OF CELL-CULTURED FOOD PRODUCTS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary and the Commissioner shall enter into a 
binding formal agreement relating to the regulation of food products 
under which--
            (1) the Commissioner shall oversee cell collection, cell 
        banks, and cell growth and differentiation;
            (2) the Commissioner shall transition oversight authority 
        of food products at the beginning of the cell harvest stage to 
        the Secretary; and
            (3) the Secretary shall oversee the processing, 
        preparation, packaging, and labeling of food products after the 
        transition of oversight authority pursuant to paragraph (2).
    (b) Definition of Food Product for Inspections.--
            (1) Federal meat inspection act.--Section 1(j) of the 
        Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601(j)) is amended in 
        the first sentence by inserting ``or from any cell-cultured 
        food product derived during and after cell harvest from any 
        amenable species,'' before ``excepting products''.
            (2) Poultry products inspection act.--Section 4(f) of the 
        Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 453(f)) is amended 
        by inserting ``or any cell-cultured food product derived during 
        and after cell harvest from poultry,'' before ``excepting''.
    (c) Regulations.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the 
Commissioner, shall issue final regulations--
            (1) that prescribe the type and frequency of inspection 
        required for the manufacture and processing of food products; 
        and
            (2) for the prevention of the adulteration and misbranding 
        of food products.
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