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<dc:title>119 S2233 IS: U.S.A. Beef Act</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>U.S. Senate</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2025-07-09</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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        <distribution-code>II</distribution-code>
        <congress>119th CONGRESS</congress>
        <session>1st Session</session>
        <legis-num>S. 2233</legis-num>
        <current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>
        <action>
            <action-date date="20250709">July 9, 2025</action-date>
            <action-desc><sponsor name-id="S381">Mr. Rounds</sponsor> introduced the following bill;
                which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSAF00">Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
                Forestry</committee-name></action-desc>
        </action>
        <legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>
        <official-title>To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to modify requirements for a meat
            food product of cattle to bear a <quote>Product of U.S.A.</quote> label, and for other
            purposes.</official-title>
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        <section section-type="section-one" id="S1">
            <enum>1.</enum>
            <header>Short title</header>
 <text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>U.S.A. Beef Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
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            <enum>2.</enum>
            <header>Product of U.S.A. label for beef</header>
 <text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/607">21 U.S.C. 607</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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                    <enum>(g)</enum>
                    <header>Product of the United States label for beef</header>
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                        <enum>(1)</enum>
                        <header>In general</header>
 <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), the label of meat of cattle or a meat food product of cattle may bear the phrase <quote>Product of U.S.A.</quote>, or any substantially similar word or phrase, only if the meat or meat food product is exclusively derived from 1 or more cattle exclusively born, raised, and slaughtered in the United States.</text>
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                        <enum>(2)</enum>
                        <header>Inapplicability</header>
 <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) shall not apply to meat of cattle or a meat food product of cattle that is intended and offered for export to a foreign country.</text>
                    </paragraph>
                </subsection>
                <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
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