§1054 — Title 21 Food and Drugs | U.S. Code

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By March 1 of every year after December 29, 1970, the Secretary must send a detailed written report to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The report must describe how eggs and egg products are processed, stored, handled, distributed, and inspected. It must say how well the inspection system is working, including State egg inspection programs, and give recommendations for new laws to improve the program. The report must also cover import activity for the previous calendar year. It must certify whether foreign plants met U.S. requirements; list the names and locations of plants allowed to export to the United States; show how many USDA inspectors checked those plants and how often; show how many inspectors licensed by each exporting country inspected imports and how well they did; give total import volumes from each country and by major category; report rejections of plants or products that failed standards; and include recommendations to improve the import program.

Title 21, §1054

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(a)11 So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted. Not later than March 1 of each year following December 29, 1970, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a comprehensive and detailed written report with respect to—

(1)the processing, storage, handling, and distribution of eggs and egg products subject to the provisions of this chapter; the inspection of establishments operated in connection therewith; the effectiveness of the operation of the inspection, including the effectiveness of the operations of State egg inspection programs; and recommendations for legislation to improve such program; and

(2)the administration of section 1046 of this title (relating to imports) during the immediately preceding calendar year, including but not limited to—

(A)a certification by the Secretary that foreign plants exporting eggs or egg products to the United States have complied with requirements of this chapter and regulations issued thereunder;

(B)the names and locations of plants authorized or permitted to export eggs or egg products to the United States;

(C)the number of inspectors employed by the Department of Agriculture in the calendar year concerned who were assigned to inspect plants referred to in paragraph (B) hereof and the frequency with which each such plant was inspected by such inspectors;

(D)the number of inspectors that were licensed by each country from which any imports were received and that were assigned, during the calendar year concerned, to inspect such imports and the facilities in which such imports were handled; and the frequency and effectiveness of such inspections;

(E)the total volume of eggs and egg products which was imported into the United States during the calendar year concerned from each country, including a separate itemization of the volume of each major category of such imports from each country during such year, and a detailed report of rejections of plants and products because of failure to meet appropriate standards prescribed by this chapter; and

(F)recommendations for legislation to improve such program.

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This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), (2)(A), (E), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–597, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1620, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1031 of this title and Tables.

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1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry” for “Agriculture and Forestry” in introductory provisions.

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of this section, see section 29 of Pub. L. 91–597, set out as a note under section 1031 of this title.

§1054 Annual Report to Congressional Committees

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