[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 467 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 467

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that foods 
 containing spices, flavoring, or coloring derived from meat, poultry, 
  other animal products (including insects), or known allergens bear 
              labeling stating that fact and their names.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2003

   Mrs. Lowey (for herself, Ms. Lee, and Ms. DeLauro) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that foods 
 containing spices, flavoring, or coloring derived from meat, poultry, 
  other animal products (including insects), or known allergens bear 
              labeling stating that fact and their names.

    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 ``Food Ingredient Right to Know Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Millions of Americans follow certain dietary guidelines 
        for health, religious, and cultural reasons. These individuals 
        depend on ingredient labels for the information they need to 
        abide by these guidelines.
            (2) Under current regulations, food manufacturers are not 
        required to identify the products used in natural or artificial 
        flavorings, colorings, or spices, or some food additives.
            (3) These additives often contain derivatives of meat, 
        poultry, other animal products such as insects, and allergens 
        (such as peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, eggs, milk, soy, 
        and wheat).

SEC. 3. FOOD LABELING; REQUIREMENT OF STATEMENT REGARDING SPICES, 
              FLAVORING, AND COLORING DERIVED FROM MEAT, POULTRY, OR 
              KNOWN ALLERGENS.

    Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
343) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (g), by inserting ``, subject to paragraph 
        (w)'' before the period at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (i), by inserting ``, subject to paragraph 
        (w)'' before the first period; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following paragraph:
    ``(w) If it contains any spice, flavoring, or coloring derived from 
meat, poultry, any other animal product (including insects), or a known 
food allergen unless its labeling bears a statement with appropriate 
prominence on the information panel providing that fact and the name of 
the meat, poultry, other animal product, or known food allergen, 
respectively.''.
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