§2109 Publication of annual reports

Summary

The FDA Commissioner must send Congress and post on the FDA website a yearly report on the agency’s pesticide residue testing. The report must include information like the “Food and Drug Administration Pesticide Program Residue Monitoring 2003” report released in June of 2005; identify products or countries (for imports) that need extra study and plans for those studies, and include the results and analysis of the Ginseng Dietary Supplements Special Survey noted on page 13 of that 2003 report; give how many interstate and imported shipments of each tested commodity were sampled and whether the sampling is statistically strong (confidence intervals and recommendations on more samples and plans to increase them); and describe if some goods are being imported under the wrong name and what steps will be taken to stop that. Reports for fiscal years 2004 through 2006 may be combined into one report by June 1, 2008. After that, each report is due by June 1 and must cover data collected two years earlier. The FDA Commissioner, the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Department of Commerce, and the head of the Agricultural Marketing Service must make a written agreement so testing data from FSIS and AMS on meat, poultry, eggs, and certain raw agricultural products can be included.