To provide the Food and Drug Administration needed authorities to carry out its regulatory mission with respect to human foods, to provide additional resources and authorities with respect to human foods research, and for other purposes.
Rep. DeGette Proposes Giving FDA Access to Secret Food Recipes and Researching Ultra-Processed Foods
This bill is currently in the early stages of the legislative process after being introduced in the House. It has been sent to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for review. There are no upcoming votes scheduled at this time.
Legislative Progress
Food companies will likely fight against sharing their private recipes, making it hard for this bill to move forward without major changes.
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Small and mid-size food manufacturers would face new recordkeeping and disclosure requirements. They would need to open their full recipes, including unlabeled ingredients and exact amounts, to FDA inspectors on request. Companies with ingredients not listed on labels would also have to report those to the FDA, which would publish them publicly. This could expose trade secrets and increase compliance costs for smaller producers who lack large regulatory affairs teams.
“each person (excluding farms and restaurants) who manufactures, processes, packs, distributes, receives, holds, or imports such article shall, at the request of an officer or employee duly designated by the Secretary, permit such officer or employee, upon presentation of appropriate credentials and a written notice to such person, at reasonable times and within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner, to have access to and copy all records relating to the recipe and contents of such article”
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
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No votes have been recorded for this legislation yet.
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To provide the Food and Drug Administration needed authorities to carry out its regulatory mission with respect to human foods, to provide additional resources and authorities with respect to human foods research, and for other purposes.
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