LABELING related term(s) Packaging

Amendments

FDA: provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), H742, H744, H746, H747, H748, H751 [8MR]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), consideration (H. Res. 702), H527 [2MR]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), consideration (H. Res. 710), H734 [8MR]

Bills and resolutions

Children and youth: require ratings labels on video games and prohibit sales and rentals of adult-rated video games to minors (see H.R. 5345), H2502 [10MY]

FDA: conduct consumer testing to determine appropriateness of labeling requirements for indoor tanning devices and whether the requirements provide sufficient information on the risks such devices pose (see H.R. 4767), H387 [16FE]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (see S. 3128), S5228 [25MY]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), consideration (see H. Res. 702), H508 [1MR] (see H. Res. 710), H644 [7MR]

Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act: amend relative to labeling of cigarette packages with anti-littering messages (see S. 2758), S4155 [8MY]

Food: extend food labeling requirements to enable customers to make informed choices about nutritional content of standard menu items in large chain restaurants (see S. 3484), S5659 [8JN] (see H.R. 5563), H3641 [8JN]

———require labels on food that contains, or is produced with, a genetically engineered material (see H.R. 5269), H1979 [2MY]

Fur Product Labeling Act: require labeling of all fur products regardless of value (see H.R. 4904), H790 [8MR]

Northern Mariana Islands: provide certain requirements for labeling textile fiber products and for duty-free and quota-free treatment of products and implement minimum wage and immigration requirements (see H.R. 5550), H3496 [7JN]

Letters

National Uniformity for Food Act: Connie Tipton, International Dairy Foods Association, and Jerry Kozak, National Milk Producers Federation, H742 [8MR]

———Don Ament, Colorado Dept. of Agriculture, H524 [2MR]

———J. Carlton Courter III, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, H728 [8MR]

———Representative Barton, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H538 [2MR]

———Representative Sensenbrenner, Committee on the Judiciary (House), H538 [2MR]

Lists

Organizations supporting H.R. 4167, National Uniformity for Food Act, H522 [2MR], H730 [8MR]

Memorandums

National Uniformity for Food Act: Bill Lockyer, California Attorney General, H532 [2MR]

Motions

FDA: provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), H755 [8MR]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), consideration (H. Res. 702), H528 [2MR]

Remarks in House

Dept. of HHS: verify that proposed food safety legislation will pose no additional risk to public health or safety from terrorist attacks on the food supply, H746 [8MR]

FDA: conduct consumer testing to determine appropriateness of labeling requirements for indoor tanning devices and whether the requirements provide sufficient information on the risks such devices pose (H.R. 4767), E188 [17FE]

———expedite consideration of State petitions for adoption of food warnings relative to cancer-causing agents, reproductive effects or birth defects, or children's exposure to certain harmful agents, H744-H746 [8MR]

———permit States to maintain or enact food warning laws that require notifications regarding health risks associated with sulfiting agents in bulk foods, H748-H751 [8MR]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), H530-H539 [2MR], H574 [7MR], H739-H758 [8MR], E332, E336 [9MR], E467 [30MR]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), consideration (H. Res. 702), H521-H529 [2MR]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), consideration (H. Res. 710), H727-H736 [8MR], E340 [9MR]

———provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements (H.R. 4167), motion to recommit, H755, H756 [8MR]

———State notification requirement regarding the presence or potential effects of mercury in fish and shellfish, H751, H752 [8MR]

Food: require labels on food that contains, or is produced with, a genetically engineered material (H.R. 5269), E687 [2MY]

Food industry: allow States to require labeling of meat or fish packaged with carbon monoxide, H574 [7MR], H728, H730, H755, H756 [8MR]

FTC: study rating system of video game industry and determine if their labeling practices are unfair or deceptive (H.R. 1145), H1438 [4AP], H4932 [10JY]

States: clarify jurisdiction over certain food adulteration standards in absence of a Federal standard and allow further regulation of dietary supplements, H743, H744 [8MR]

Remarks in Senate

Food: extend food labeling requirements to enable customers to make informed choices about nutritional content of standard menu items in large chain restaurants (S. 3484), S5669 [8JN]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 4167, National Uniformity for Food Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 702) (H. Rept. 109-381), H508 [1MR]

———Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 710) (H. Rept. 109-386), H644 [7MR]

National Uniformity for Food Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4167) (H. Rept. 109-379), H449 [28FE]

Summaries

Genetically Engineered Food Right To Know Act (H.R. 5269), E687 [2MY]

Texts of

H. Res. 702, consideration of H.R. 4167, National Uniformity for Food Act, H521 [2MR]

H. Res. 710, consideration of H.R. 4167, National Uniformity for Food Act, H727 [8MR]

H.R. 4167, National Uniformity for Food Act, H739-H741 [8MR]