Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2827
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2019-05-17
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Health and Human Services

Food supply, safety, and labeling

Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Latest action: action_date: 2019-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-05-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the use of perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (commonly referred to as PFAS) in food contact substances. A food contact substance is a substance intended for use as a component of materials used in manufacturing, packing, packaging, transporting, or holding food if such use is not intended to have a technical effect in such food.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2827 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 17, 2019 Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance used as a food contact substance to be unsafe and therefore treated as adulterated under such Act, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2019 . 2. Prohibition against food contact substances containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances Paragraph (6) of section 409(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 348(h)(6) ) is amended— (1) by striking (6) and inserting (6)(A) Definition.— ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (B) Perfluorinated compounds (i) Deemed unsafe Beginning on January 1, 2022, any PFAS used as a food contact substance is deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of this section and the application of clause (2)(C) of section 402(a). (ii) Definitions In this subparagraph: (I) The term PFAS means a perfluoroalkyl substance or a polyfluoroalkyl substance that is man-made with at least 1 fully fluorinated carbon atom. (II) The term perfluoroalkyl substance means a man-made chemical of which all of the carbon atoms are fully fluorinated carbon atoms. (III) The term polyfluoroalkyl substance means a man-made chemical containing a mix of fully fluorinated carbon atoms, partially fluorinated carbon atoms, and nonfluorinated carbon atoms. .