[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 793 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 793

   To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that 
   standards of identity for milk include certain minimum standards 
             regarding milk solids, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 19, 1993

Mr. Durenberger (for himself, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Feingold, and Mr. Jeffords) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                 Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that 
   standards of identity for milk include certain minimum standards 
             regarding milk solids, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Healthier Milk Act''.

SEC. 2. STANDARDS OF IDENTITY FOR MILK.

    Section 401 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
341) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``Whenever'';
            (2) by designating the sentence beginning with ``In 
        prescribing any standard'' and all that follows as subsection 
        (b); and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of 
this subsection, the Secretary shall promulgate standards of identity 
under subsection (a) that require that--
            ``(1) all milk in final package form for beverage use shall 
        contain not less than--
                    ``(A) 3.25 percent milk fat; and
                    ``(B) 8.7 percent milk solids not fat;
            ``(2) all lowfat milk in final package form for beverage 
        use shall contain not less than 10 percent milk solids not fat; 
        and
            ``(3) all skim milk in final package form for beverage use 
        shall contain not less than 9 percent milk solids not fat.''.

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