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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 5081 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to prohibit retailers from designating the United States as the count... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Country of origin labeling for beef

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Section 281 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1638 ) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs
(1)through
(7)as paragraphs
(2)through (8), respectively; by inserting before paragraph
(2)(as so redesignated) the following: The term beef means meat produced from cattle (including veal). ; in paragraph (2)(A)(i) (as so redesignated), by striking lamb and venison and inserting beef, lamb, and venison ; and in paragraph (2)(A)(ii) (as so redesignated), by striking ground lamb and ground venison and inserting ground beef, ground lamb, and ground venison . Section 282(a) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1638a(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: A retailer of a covered commodity that is beef may designate the covered commodity as exclusively having a United States country of origin only if the covered commodity is derived from an animal that was exclusively born, raised, slaughtered, and packaged in the United States. . Section 283(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1638b(b) ) is amended by striking $1,000 for each violation and inserting $1,000 for each violation (or in the case of a covered commodity that is beef, $5,000 for each pound of beef not in compliance with the requirements of section 282) . No ruling by the World Trade Organization or by any other international organization of which the United States is a member that is established before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act may be construed to limit, alter, or affect the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to require country of origin labeling in accordance with the amendments made by this section.
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