Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act

Bill: 108-hr-2203
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Exports
Federal advisory bodies
Food industry
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Imports
Labeling
Law
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Poultry
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, respectively, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) prescribe initial and final pathogen performance standards for raw meat and raw poultry, and meat and poultry products processed in establishments inspected under such Acts; (2) identify, and publish a list of, such pathogens; (3) initiate pathogen surveys to determine existing levels of meat and poultry contamination; (4) perform microbial compliance testing at such establishments, and prohibit non-complying establishments from labeling such products as "inspected and passed "; and (5) report on the scientific feasibility of establishing health-based performance standards for pathogens in raw meat and meat products.
Directs the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee for Microbiology Criteria for Foods.
Directs the Secretary to enforce Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System requirements and other sanitation requirements in any official establishment. Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit non-complying establishments from labeling any meat or meat product, or poultry or poultry product, as "inspected and passed."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H939)
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House