[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5916 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5916

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the label 
 on certain menstrual products to include an ingredient list, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2016

    Ms. Meng (for herself and Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York) 
 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 the label 
 on certain menstrual products to include an ingredient list, 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 ``Accurate Labeling of Menstrual 
Products Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. LABELING REQUIREMENT FOR MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 502 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 352) is amended by inserting at the end the 
following:
    ``(dd) If it is an obstetrical and gynecological device described 
in section 884.5400, 884.5425, 884.5435, 884.5460, 884.5470, or 
884.5900 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor 
regulation), unless it bears a label listing the name of each 
ingredient or component of the device in order of the most predominant 
ingredient or component to the least predominant ingredient or 
component.''.
    (b) Date of Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
applies only with respect to a device manufactured more than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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