§4403 Ingredient Reporting

Summary

Manufacturers, packagers, and importers of smokeless tobacco must every year send the Secretary a list of the ingredients they add to make the product (but not the company name or brand) and must give the amount of nicotine in each product. They can have another person or company send this information for them. The Secretary will send reports to Congress when needed, using that information to summarize research, point out any ingredients she finds to be a health risk, and share other public-interest findings. The ingredient reports are treated as trade secrets under federal law (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)) and kept confidential, but Congress or its committees can get them if they ask; the Secretary must tell the provider in writing if that happens. The Secretary must write rules to protect the information, name a keeper who locks the records, tracks everyone who looks at them, and tells those people not to share the information.