H.R. 4749 · 115th Congress
Truth in Certification for Foreign Food Ingredients Act
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This bill amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to require the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to carry out a program to enhance transparency and traceability of food products and ingredients that are exported to the United States in order to protect consumers and food manufacturers against mislabeling, adulteration, and fraud.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jan 9, 2018
Truth in Certification for Foreign Food Ingredients Act
This bill amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to require the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to carry out a program to enhance transparency and traceability of food products and ingredients that are exported to the United States in order to protect consumers and food manufacturers against mislabeling, adulteration, and fraud.
Under the program, the FAS must provide foreign government officials, agricultural producers, and exporters of food products and ingredients to the United States with technical assistance and best practices to improve: (1) transparency, traceability and fraud prevention; and (2) cooperation with private certification and verification bodies to ensure the accuracy and integrity of their food product and ingredient certification and verification.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Truth in Certification for Foreign Food Ingredients Act
Latest action (Jan 24, 2018): Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food · Origin: House · Introduced: Jan 9, 2018
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.