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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 5863 (Introduced in House) — To strengthen enforcement actions against unlawfully sourced palm oil and deforestation in developing countries, and... · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Labeling of imported palm oil products

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Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 343 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: If it is a food that contains ingredients derived from imported palm oil, unless its labeling lists such ingredients by the common or usual name of the ingredient, including listing (parenthetically or otherwise) of all components of such ingredient. . Section 281(1)(A) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1638(1) )(A) is amended— in clause (x), by striking and at the end; in clause (xi), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: palm oil. .
Each head of a Federal agency which regulates products containing palm oil shall issue regulations— specifying that a person may not sell, or offer for sale in interstate commerce, imported palm oil products, or another product containing imported palm oil products, unless the packaging and labeling of such products that are not, by operation of the amendments made by paragraph (1), subject to section 282 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1638a ), specify the country of origin of such products; and providing for an exemption from the requirement specified pursuant to subparagraph
(A)with respect to products containing imported palm oil products if the amount of imported palm oil in such product is de minimis (as determined by the head of the Federal agency involved).
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