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To establish the Food Safety Administration to protect the public health by preventing foodborne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to foodborne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.

USA115th CongressHR-7338| House 
| Updated: 12/19/2018
Rosa L. DeLauro

Rosa L. DeLauro

Democratic Representative

Connecticut

Agriculture Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Safe Food Act of 2018 This bill establishes the Food Safety Administration (FSA) as an independent agency to administer and enforce food safety laws. The functions of specified federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws are transferred to the FSA. The FSA is directed to: promulgate regulations to protect the food supply from contamination; implement federal food safety inspection, labeling, enforcement, and research efforts to protect the public health; develop consistent and science-based standards for safe food; prioritize federal food safety efforts and deployment of resources to achieve the greatest benefit in reducing foodborne illness; administer a national food safety program based on an analysis of the hazards associated with different foods and the processing of different foods; require that all food and feed facilities register before operation or importation of food, feed, or ingredients; establish an accreditation system for foreign governments seeking to certify food for importation to the United States; establish requirements for tracing food and animals from point of origin to retail sale; establish and administer a food safety technology program to foster innovations with the potential to improve food safety; maintain or access an active surveillance system of food and epidemiological evidence; establish a sampling system to monitor contaminants in food; rank categories of food based on their health hazard; establish a national public education campaign on food safety; and conduct research relating to food safety. This bill includes provisions regarding prohibited acts, recall authority, penalties for violations of food safety laws, whistle-blower protection, and civil actions.
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Dec 19, 2018
Introduced in House
Dec 19, 2018
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • December 19, 2018
    Introduced in House


  • December 19, 2018
    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Agriculture and Food

Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAdministrative remediesAdvanced technology and technological innovationsAgricultural tradeAnimal and plant healthBusiness recordsCivil actions and liabilityCongressional oversightConsumer affairsDepartment of AgricultureDepartment of CommerceDepartment of Health and Human ServicesEmployment discrimination and employee rightsExecutive agency funding and structureFood and Drug Administration (FDA)Food industry and servicesFood supply, safety, and labelingFraud offenses and financial crimesGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHealth promotion and preventive careIntergovernmental relationsLicensing and registrationsLivestockMeatMedical researchResearch administration and fundingSeafoodState and local government operationsTrade restrictionsVeterinary medicine and animal diseases

To establish the Food Safety Administration to protect the public health by preventing foodborne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to foodborne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.

USA115th CongressHR-7338| House 
| Updated: 12/19/2018
Safe Food Act of 2018 This bill establishes the Food Safety Administration (FSA) as an independent agency to administer and enforce food safety laws. The functions of specified federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws are transferred to the FSA. The FSA is directed to: promulgate regulations to protect the food supply from contamination; implement federal food safety inspection, labeling, enforcement, and research efforts to protect the public health; develop consistent and science-based standards for safe food; prioritize federal food safety efforts and deployment of resources to achieve the greatest benefit in reducing foodborne illness; administer a national food safety program based on an analysis of the hazards associated with different foods and the processing of different foods; require that all food and feed facilities register before operation or importation of food, feed, or ingredients; establish an accreditation system for foreign governments seeking to certify food for importation to the United States; establish requirements for tracing food and animals from point of origin to retail sale; establish and administer a food safety technology program to foster innovations with the potential to improve food safety; maintain or access an active surveillance system of food and epidemiological evidence; establish a sampling system to monitor contaminants in food; rank categories of food based on their health hazard; establish a national public education campaign on food safety; and conduct research relating to food safety. This bill includes provisions regarding prohibited acts, recall authority, penalties for violations of food safety laws, whistle-blower protection, and civil actions.
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Timeline
Dec 19, 2018
Introduced in House
Dec 19, 2018
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • December 19, 2018
    Introduced in House


  • December 19, 2018
    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Rosa L. DeLauro

Rosa L. DeLauro

Democratic Representative

Connecticut

Agriculture Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee

Agriculture and Food

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAdministrative remediesAdvanced technology and technological innovationsAgricultural tradeAnimal and plant healthBusiness recordsCivil actions and liabilityCongressional oversightConsumer affairsDepartment of AgricultureDepartment of CommerceDepartment of Health and Human ServicesEmployment discrimination and employee rightsExecutive agency funding and structureFood and Drug Administration (FDA)Food industry and servicesFood supply, safety, and labelingFraud offenses and financial crimesGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHealth promotion and preventive careIntergovernmental relationsLicensing and registrationsLivestockMeatMedical researchResearch administration and fundingSeafoodState and local government operationsTrade restrictionsVeterinary medicine and animal diseases