Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act

Bill: 116-hr-2078
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2019-04-03
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation

Food supply, safety, and labeling
Latest action: action_date: 2019-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-04-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act </b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the sale of food that contains poppy seeds with potentially harmful levels of morphine, codeine, or other alkaloid compounds.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2078 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 3, 2019 Mr. Womack introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To prohibit the sale of food that is, or contains, unsafe poppy seeds.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act . 2. Findings; purpose (a) Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Stephen Hacala was a 25-year-old from Fayetteville, Arkansas, who was dearly loved by family and friends when he died from morphine intoxication caused by consumption of contaminated poppy seeds. (2) More than a dozen people in the United States have been confirmed to have died from morphine overdoses from contaminated poppy seeds. (b) Purpose It is the purpose of this Act to prohibit the distribution and sale of contaminated poppy seeds in order to prevent harm, addiction, and further deaths from morphine-laced poppy seeds. 3. Unsafe poppy seeds as adulterants in food Section 301 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 331 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (fff) Selling, or offering to sell, directly to consumers a food that is or contains poppy seeds, including concentrates, metabolites, constituents, or extracts of poppy seeds, that contain levels of morphine, codeine, or other alkaloid compounds that may render the food injurious to health. .