Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the “Food Tracking Improvement Act” to amend the FDC Act to establish a food tracing system. The traceability system would address all stages of manufacturing, processing, packaging, and distribution of food, requiring each article of food shipped in interstate commerce to be identified in a manner enabling the FDA to retrieve the history, use, and location through (1) a recordkeeeping and audit system, (2) a secure, online database, or (3) registered identification. Each person required to identify an article of food would need to maintain accurate records regarding purchase, sale, and identification, and allow inspection of the records. S. 3422 was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on August 1, 2008.
SOURCE: S. 3422, 110th Cong., 2d Sess. (2008)
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