To establish the Food Safety Administration to protect the public health by ensuring the safety of food, preventing foodborne illness, maintaining safety reviews and reassessments of food additives, enforcing pesticide residue tolerances, improving the surveillance of foodborne pathogens, and for other purposes.
Food Safety Administration Act of 2022
This bill splits the current Food and Drug Administration into the Federal Drug Administration (to regulate drugs, cosmetics, devices, biological products, color additives, and tobacco) and the Food Safety Administration (to regulate food safety). The bill also establishes specific requirements with respect to manufacturers of infant formula, such as requiring manufacturers to notify the newly created Food Safety Administration of potential infant formula shortages.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S3273-3274)
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E723)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5982)
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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