3.0.0 667 2025-12-05T22:53:53Z 2025-12-05T22:53:53Z Senate S S 2025-02-20 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/667 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-02-20T19:06:06Z 119 3324 HR 2025-05-13 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2025-02-20 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-02-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001079 Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] Cindy Hyde-Smith R MS N Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-03-13T15:25:34Z

00 2025-02-20 Introduced in Senate 2025-08-06T18:58:14Z <p><strong>Safer Shrimp Imports Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the importation of shrimp from countries that do not have food inspection systems equivalent to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection system for shrimp, or that have not entered into an agreement with the FDA facilitating U.S. inspection of their food facilities. &nbsp;</p><p>Specifically, the FDA must seek to enter into arrangements and agreements with the government of each country with at least one facility that manufactures, processes, packs, or holds shrimp for consumption in the United States to facilitate FDA inspection of such facilities.&nbsp;</p><p>The bill prohibits the importation of shrimp that is manufactured, processed, packed, or held in a country (1) that has not entered into an inspection arrangement or agreement with the FDA, or (2) the food inspection system of which is not equivalent to the FDA’s food inspection system with respect to shrimp. To be considered equivalent, a country’s food inspection system must include staffing that ensures uniform enforcement of applicable laws and regulations, and must provide for the enforcement of laws and regulations that address conditions under which shrimp are raised and transported to processing facilities. &nbsp;</p><p>Further, shrimp imported or offered for import into the United States that have been manufactured, processed, packed, or held in a country that is not compliant with these requirements are deemed adulterated, and thus may not be introduced into interstate commerce.&nbsp;</p>

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