Food Safety: Improving Inspections and Recalls
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While food safety is often a bipartisan issue, most bills introduced in the Senate never make it to a full vote or pass both chambers.
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Food importers and manufacturers, many of them small and mid-sized businesses, would face expanded third-party certification options that could ease market access, but also new risk of having refused shipments destroyed at their expense rather than sent back. Owners now must pay for destruction within 90 days if their imported food is found to pose a significant public health risk.
“the owner or consignee shall be responsible for the costs of such destruction”
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sent to a congressional committee for expert review. The committee decides whether this bill moves forward.
Introduced in Senate
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The House advanced the Destruction of Hazardous Imports Act, a core component of the broader food safety package. The bill authorizes the FDA to destroy imported foods that fail safety inspections, preventing importers from 'port shopping' contaminated goods into the U.S. market.
Legislation enabling the FDA to destroy imported goods refused entry due to contamination has cleared a key House committee. The bill, supported by the Southern Shrimp Alliance, aims to close loopholes that allow dangerous seafood to be re-exported and then re-imported through different ports.
No votes or related bills recorded for this bill yet.
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Making America's Food Safer Act
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