To provide the Food and Drug Administration needed authorities to carry out its regulatory mission with respect to human foods, to provide additional resources and authorities with respect to human foods research, and for other purposes.
Sponsored By: Representative DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a dedicated funding and governance framework to modernize FDA oversight of human foods and nutrition. It would establish a "Human Foods Innovation Account" and new programs to fund research, a Center of Excellence, stronger disclosure rules for processed foods, and a public-private partnership on packaging chemicals.
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- Families and caregivers: Would prioritize research and programs on infant and maternal nutrition, infant formula safety, and the health effects of ultra-processed foods to inform safer options and health-system nutrition programs.
- Researchers and health systems: Would fund competitive Critical Research Grants and create a Center of Excellence to coordinate FDA work with the drug center on nutrition-drug interactions, and it would exempt certain voluntary FDA research information collection from the Paperwork Reduction Act.
- Food manufacturers and regulators: Would require processed-food processors, packagers, distributors, holders, and importers (not farms or restaurants) to make recipe and content records available on request and to submit undisclosed contents for publication. It would also form a public-private information partnership on packaging chemicals with a report to Congress within 18 months and then annually.
*Creates the Human Foods Innovation Account to channel federal funding for food safety, nutrition research, and standards modernization.*
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New FDA access to processed recipes
This bill would let FDA staff request and copy recipe and ingredient records for processed foods from manufacturers, packers, importers, distributors, and holders. Farms and restaurants would be excluded. Manufacturers would have to submit to FDA any contents not declared on the label, including flavors, colors, spices, and incidental additives. The FDA would publish a website list of those products and their contents. Consumers could get more transparency, while covered businesses would face new compliance and disclosure costs.
FDA partnership on packaging chemicals
This bill would require the FDA Commissioner to form public–private partnerships with nongovernmental groups to share information on food packaging materials and chemicals. The partnership would recommend appropriate chemical limits for food-contact substances. The FDA would report to Congress about the partnership's work within 18 months of forming it and then annually afterward.
More FDA research and advisory support
This bill would create a Center of Excellence to link nutrition and medicine and require a permanent Advisory Committee on human foods. It would direct HHS (through FDA and NIH) to award competitive grants for food and nutrition research, including infant nutrition, biotechnology, supplements, and food-as-medicine projects. The bill would express the sense of Congress that a "Human Foods Innovation Account" should be created to support these activities. It would also exempt voluntary information collections done for FDA research from the Paperwork Reduction Act while the research is being conducted.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
CO • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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