NATIONAL UNIFORMITY FOR FOOD ACT
Amendments
Enact (H.R. 4167), H742, H744, H746, H747, H748, H751 [8MR]
———consideration (H. Res. 702), H527 [2MR]
———consideration (H. Res. 710), H734 [8MR]
Bills and resolutions
Enact (H.R. 4167): consideration (see H. Res. 702), H508 [1MR] (see H. Res. 710), H644 [7MR]
Letters
Provisions: 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, provisions, H522 [2MR], H730 [8MR]
Motions
———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]
Enact (H.R. 4167), H530-H539 [2MR], H574 [7MR], H739-H758 [8MR], E332, E336 [9MR], E467 [30MR]
———consideration (H. Res. 702), H521-H529 [2MR]
———consideration (H. Res. 710), H727-H736 [8MR], E340 [9MR]
———motion to recommit, H755, H756 [8MR]
FDA: 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]
———State notification requirement regarding the presence or potential effects of mercury in fish and shellfish, H751, H752 [8MR]
Food industry: allow States to require labeling of meat or fish packaged with carbon monoxide, H574 [7MR], H728, H730, H755, H756 [8MR]
States: clarify jurisdiction over certain food adulteration standards in absence of a Federal standard and allow further regulation of dietary supplements, H743, H744 [8MR]
———preserve authorities that help defend and respond to bioterrorism attacks on the food supply, H747, H748 [8MR]
Reports filed
Consideration of H.R. 4167, Provisions: 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]
Provisions: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4167) (H. Rept. 109-379), H449 [28FE]
Texts of
H. Res. 702, consideration of H.R. 4167, provisions, H521 [2MR]
H. Res. 710, consideration of H.R. 4167, provisions, H727 [8MR]