Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§1304 Consumer safeguards

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 35— - AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part Part A— - Definitions, Loans, Parity Payments, and Consumer Safeguards › § 1304

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Do not use these powers to cut production of foods and fibers below what is needed for normal U.S. consumption, as the Secretary decides from 1920–1929 records. The Secretary must consider past export losses, population and consumption trends, and available substitutes, and must work to keep a steady domestic supply at prices fair to producers and consumers.

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Title 7, §1304

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The powers conferred under this chapter shall not be used to discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the Secretary from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 1920 to 1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption by decline in exports during such period, current trends in domestic consumption and exports of particular commodities, and the quantities of substitutes available for domestic consumption within any general class of food commodities. In carrying out the purposes of this chapter it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give due regard to the maintenance of a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities from domestic production adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair to both producers and consumers.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1304

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73