21 U.S.C. § 2221 — Food emergency response network

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This law requires the Secretary to report every two years on a national food emergency lab network. The network must provide surveillance, rapid detection, and surge capacity for food emergencies. It must also coordinate state and local labs and respond to food-related emergencies.

This section tells the Secretary of Health and Human Services to work with the Secretaries of Agriculture and Homeland Security. It also tells the Secretary to work with state, local, and tribal governments. Together they must report on progress toward a national food emergency lab network. The first report is due within 180 days of January 4, 2011, and a new report is due every two years after that. Each report must go to Congress and be posted on the Department of Health and Human Services' website.

The report must cover the network's progress on six things. The network must offer steady watch, quick spotting, and extra capacity for big food emergencies, including someone tainting food on purpose. It must link the food-testing power of state, local, and tribal labs. This means using new tools to spot and identify problems, and sharing data between federal agencies and state labs so everyone sees the same picture. The network must offer food lab services that are easy to reach, fast, correct, and steady nationwide. It must build and keep up a shared set of methods for federal, state, and local officials to use. It must respond to food emergencies. Finally, it must link up with other lab networks run by other federal agencies.

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- Citation: 21 U.S.C. § 2221, titled "Food emergency response network" - Enacted by: Pub. L. 111–353, title II, § 202(b), dated January 4, 2011 (124 Stat. 3929) - Length: 178 words - Source credit: Contains 1 source-credit reference (single enacting statute) - Amendment history: 1 recorded amendment count

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and State, local, and tribal governments shall, not later than 180 days after January 4, 2011, and biennially thereafter, submit to the relevant committees of Congress, and make publicly available on the Internet Web site of the Department of Health and Human Services, a report on the progress in implementing a national food emergency response laboratory network that—

(1)

provides ongoing surveillance, rapid detection, and surge capacity for large-scale food-related emergencies, including intentional adulteration of the food supply;

(2)

coordinates the food laboratory capacities of State, local, and tribal food laboratories, including the adoption of novel surveillance and identification technologies and the sharing of data between Federal agencies and State laboratories to develop national situational awareness;

(3)

provides accessible, timely, accurate, and consistent food laboratory services throughout the United States;

(4)

develops and implements a methods repository for use by Federal, State, and local officials;

(5)

responds to food-related emergencies; and

(6)

is integrated with relevant laboratory networks administered by other Federal agencies.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–353, title II, § 202(b), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3929.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

2011Enacted · Pub. L. 111-353 · 124 Stat. 3929

The record indicates that this section was enacted by Public Law 111–353, title II, § 202(b), approved January 4, 2011, and appearing at 124 Stat. 3929. According to the source credit, the provision has been subject to limited subsequent amendment activity, with the credit reflecting a single amendment reference beyond the original enactment. Public Law 111–353 is commonly known as the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a major reform of the federal food safety system enacted in early 2011. The Act is generally understood to have shifted the regulatory approach toward prevention of contamination rather than primarily responding after outbreaks occurred, following a series of high-profile foodborne illness incidents in the preceding years. Title II of the Act addressed improved capacity for detecting and responding to problems in the food supply, and the establishment of laboratory networks and reporting requirements, such as the one reflected in this section, is consistent with that broader emphasis on strengthening surveillance and emergency response infrastructure. Beyond this general understanding of FSMA's purpose, the record does not establish the specific legislative reasoning behind the particular reporting timeline, biennial structure, or the six enumerated network functions set out in this section. Any more detailed account of why Congress structured the provision in this specific way would be speculative and is not supported by the materials provided here.

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