Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act

Bill: 109-hr-5269
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2006-05-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Animals
Citizen lawsuits
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Agriculture
Fines (Penalties)
Food safety
Genetic engineering
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Injunctions
Judicial review
Labeling
Law
Legal fees
Livestock
Meat inspection
Parties to actions
Poultry
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Transgenic animals
Transgenic plants

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: 
Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), and the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) to deem a food misbranded if it contains or was produced with a genetically engineered material unless its labeling contains statements meeting specified requirements. Requires the periodic testing of such foods transferred along a chain of distribution to assure accuracy of labels, subject to specified exceptions. Excludes, in all three Acts, food: (1) served in restaurants; or (2) prepared primarily in a retail establishment, ready for human consumption, but not offered for sale for immediate consumption in the establishment. 
 
Excludes, for the FDCA, a medical food as defined in the Orphan Drug Act.
 
Subjects violators to civil monetary penalties, exempting recipients who accept a guarantee of the absence of genetically engineered material in good faith or producers whose food inadvertently becomes contaminated by genetically engineered material. Authorizes citizen suits as specified.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-05-02
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: 2006-05-02
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: 2006-05-02
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: 2006-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E687-688)
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Introduced in House