A bill to provide clarification regarding the common or usual name for bison and compliance with section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-2479
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2019-09-16
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs

Food supply, safety, and labeling

Meat
Latest action: action_date: 2019-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-09-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill prohibits the sale of food that contains water buffalo and is labeled as <em>buffalo</em> unless the specific term used in the labeling is <em>water buffalo</em>.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2479 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 16, 2019 Mr. Hoeven (for himself, Mr. Bennet , Mr. Braun , and Ms. Smith ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To provide clarification regarding the common or usual name for bison and compliance with section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and for other purposes.

1. Common or usual name for North American bison 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) (1) Subject to subparagraph (2), if it is a food that is or contains any animal in the genus Bubalus and the labeling uses the term buffalo as a common or usual name for the food, unless the term used in the labeling is water buffalo . (2) Subparagraph (1) shall not be construed as prohibiting the use of the term buffalo as a common or usual name for the animal Bison bison bison (commonly known as the plains bison), or the animal Bison bison athabascae (commonly known as the wood bison). .