NO SHT Act

Bill: 118-s-4562
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2024-06-17
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2024-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4562 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 17, 2024 Mr. Booker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the practice of feeding excrement to farm animals, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the NO Stool in Herds’ Troughs Act or the NO SHT Act . 2. Prohibition on intentional addition of excrement to animal 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: (jjj) (1) The manufacture or the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of an animal food that contains intentionally-added excrement. (2) For purposes of subparagraph (1), the use of livestock or poultry manure as crop fertilizer shall not be considered to be the intentional addition of excrement. .