7 U.S.C. § 7642: Food Animal Residue Avoidance…

Summary

The Agriculture Secretary must keep running the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database (FARAD) program by using contracts, grants, or cooperative deals with suitable colleges or universities. The program must give farmers, extension workers, scientists, and veterinarians information to prevent drug, pesticide, and environmental residues in meat, milk, and eggs. It must keep current data on drug withdrawal times (including FDA-set intervals), legal tolerance levels, rapid test methods, and how chemicals move through animals. The program must also publish lists of approved drugs, share info by handbooks, software, a hotline, and the Internet, and offer expert advice and other food-safety activities. Contracts or grants must be 3 years long and can be renewed every three years. Indirect cost charges are limited to no more than 19% of the federal funds in each award. Congress authorized $2,500,000 for each fiscal year 2008 through 2023 to help run the program.

Title 7, §7642

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(a)Continuation of program

The Secretary of Agriculture shall continue operation of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database program (referred to in this section as the “FARAD program”) through contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements with appropriate colleges or universities.

(b)Activities

In carrying out the FARAD program, the Secretary shall—

(1)provide livestock producers, extension specialists, scientists, and veterinarians with information to prevent drug, pesticide, and environmental contaminant residues in food animal products;

(2)maintain up-to-date information concerning—

(A)withdrawal times on FDA-approved food animal drugs and appropriate withdrawal intervals for drugs used in food animals in the United States, as established under section 360b(a) of title 21;

(B)official tolerances for drugs and pesticides in tissues, eggs, and milk;

(C)descriptions and sensitivities of rapid screening tests for detecting residues in tissues, eggs, and milk; and

(D)data on the distribution and fate of chemicals in food animals;

(3)publish periodically a compilation of food animal drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration;

(4)make information on food animal drugs available to the public through handbooks and other literature, computer software, a telephone hotline, and the Internet;

(5)furnish producer quality-assurance programs with up-to-date data on approved drugs;

(6)maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date, residue avoidance database;

(7)provide professional advice for determining the withdrawal times necessary for food safety in the use of drugs in food animals; and

(8)engage in other activities designed to promote food safety.

(c)Contract, grants, and cooperative agreements

The Secretary shall offer to enter into a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with 1 or more appropriate colleges and universities to operate the FARAD program. The term of the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement shall be 3 years, with options to extend the term of the contract triennially.

(d)Indirect costs

Federal funds provided by the Secretary under a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement under this section shall be subject to reduction for indirect costs of the recipient of the funds in an amount not to exceed 19 percent of the total Federal funds provided under the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement.

(e)Authorization of appropriations

In addition to any other funds available to carry out subsection (c), there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $2,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2023.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

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to this section. The

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by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “2023” for “2018”. 2014—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 113–79 substituted “2018” for “2012”. 2008—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 110–246, § 7312, added subsec. (e).

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of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

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note under section 8701 of this title.

§7642 Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database Program

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