Alaskan Pollock and Golden King Crab Labeling Act

Bill: 114-s-2095
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2015-09-29
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alaska

Fishes

Food supply, safety, and labeling

Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Seafood
Latest action: action_date: 2015-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-09-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Alaskan Pollock and Golden King Crab Labeling Act</b></p> <p>This bill declares the acceptable market name of <i>Gadus chalcogrammus</i> is &quot;pollock&quot; and the acceptable market name of <i>Lithodes aequispinus</i> is &quot;golden king crab.&quot;</p> This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the sale of pollock labeled &quot;Alaskan pollock&quot; or &quot;Alaska pollock&quot; only if the pollock was harvested in the exclusive economic zone or state waters adjacent to Alaska.

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2095 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 29, 2015 Ms. Cantwell (for herself, Ms. Murkowski , Mr. Sullivan , and Mrs. Murray ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To establish certain requirements with respect to pollock and golden king crab.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Alaskan Pollock and Golden King Crab Labeling Act . 2. Requirements (a) Pollock and golden king crab Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of applying the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq. )— (1) the acceptable market name of Gadus chalcogrammus, formerly known as Theragra chalcogramma, is pollock ; and (2) the acceptable market name of Lithodes aequispinus is golden king crab . (b) Labeling of pollock Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 343 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (z) If it is labeled or advertised as Alaskan pollock or Alaska pollock and it is not pollock that is harvested in the exclusive economic zone (as that term is defined in the section 3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1802 )) or the State waters adjacent to the State of Alaska. .