[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2416 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2416

          To require menstrual product ingredient list labels.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 11, 2017

    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 require menstrual product ingredient list labels.

    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 ``Menstrual Products Right to Know Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. LABELING REQUIREMENT FOR MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS.

    (a) Menstrual products, such as menstrual cups; scented, scented 
deodorized, or unscented menstrual pads or tampons; therapeutic vaginal 
douche apparatuses; or obstetrical and gynecological devices 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), shall be deemed to be misbranded under section 502 of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 352) 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) 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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