Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-3169
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2021-11-04
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2021-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-11-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2021</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits food packaging that contains intentionally added PFAS (i.e., a perfluoroalkyl substance or a polyfluoroalkyl substance that is man-made with at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom).</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3169 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 4, 2021 Ms. Hassan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of food packaging containing intentionally added PFAS, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2021 . 2. Prohibition against food packaging containing intentionally added PFAS (a) In general 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) (1) The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of food packaging containing intentionally added PFAS. (2) The term PFAS means a perfluoroalkyl substance or a polyfluoroalkyl substance that is man-made with at least 1 fully fluorinated carbon atom. . (b) Applicability The amendment made by subsection (a) applies beginning on January 1, 2024.