[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2095 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2095

 To establish certain requirements with respect to pollock and golden 
                               king crab.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 29, 2015

   Ms. Cantwell (for herself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Sullivan, and Mrs. 
    Murray) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish certain requirements with respect to pollock and golden 
                               king crab.

    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 ``Alaskan Pollock and Golden King Crab 
Labeling Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Pollock and Golden King Crab.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, for purposes of applying the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.)--
            (1) the acceptable market name of Gadus chalcogrammus, 
        formerly known as Theragra chalcogramma, is ``pollock''; and
            (2) the acceptable market name of Lithodes aequispinus is 
        ``golden king crab''.
    (b) Labeling of Pollock.--Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 343) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(z) If it is labeled or advertised as `Alaskan pollock' or 
`Alaska pollock' and it is not pollock that is harvested in the 
exclusive economic zone (as that term is defined in the section 3 of 
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 
1802)) or the State waters adjacent to the State of Alaska.''.
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