BSE and Other Prior Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-2002
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agricultural industries
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animal diseases
Animals
Blood
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Cattle
Colleges
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Deer
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Elk
Environmental Protection
Feeds
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fur trade
Goats
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health surveys
Higher education
Identification devices
Import restrictions
Licenses
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical tests
Ohio
Performance measurement
Proteins
Science, Technology, Communications
Sheep
Veterinary medicine
Whistle blowing
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: 
BSE and Other Prion Disease Prevention and Public Health Protection Act - Prohibits the importation of a covered article that: (1) if containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article contains animal-derived material and the name of the derivative animal, and if a ruminant, identifies the country of origin and states whether specified risk material from the ruminant is or may be part of the covered article; (2) if not containing animal-derived material, does not state in English that the covered article does not contain animal-derived material; and (3) contains animal-derived material from a ruminant that was in any country at a time at which there was a transmission risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
 
Prohibits the introduction into interstate or foreign commerce of a covered article that contains: (1) specified risk material from a ruminant, or any material from a ruminant that was in any foreign country when there was a BSE transmission risk; or (2) any material from a ruminant exhibiting signs of a neurological disease. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) develop an enforcement plan for the regulatory ban of certain animal proteins in ruminant feed; (2) promulgate regulations prohibiting same-farm admixing of ruminant and nonruminant feed; (3) in conjunction with the National Prion Disease Pathology Research Center at Case Western Reserve University, expand survey efforts for prion diseases in humans; and (4) monitor animal feed and provide for the registration of certain animal feed businesses.
 
Directs the Secretary to accelerate the establishment of a ruminant identification program capable of tracing, within 48 hours, the movements of disease-exposed animals from birth to slaughter.
 
Directs the Secretaries to: (1) jointly establish a prion disease task force; and (2) develop appropriate compliance standards.
 
Defines: (1) covered article; (2) prion disease; and (3) specified risk material.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12768-12770)
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12767-12768)
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate