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7 U.S.C. § 138eReporting

submitted 36 years ago by Pub. L. 101-624 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 186 words · no verdicts yet

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Anyone who tests food for pesticide residue must report certain findings to the Secretary of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and the food's owner. This covers residues with no legal tolerance, residues over the legal limit, or residues the EPA no longer allows. Reports must go out as soon as the testing is done.

(a) In general. Any laboratory or individual that performs, arranges, or brokers a pesticide chemical analysis of food must prepare a report and send it, at the same time, to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the owner of the food. The report must cover any pesticide chemical residue found in the food that (1) has no established residue tolerance or exemption, (2) is above the allowed residue tolerance, or (3) has had its tolerance revoked, or is otherwise not allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency. (b) When to report. The laboratory must send this report to the Secretary, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the food's owner as soon as practical after finishing the analysis. (c) Guidelines. The Secretary must adopt standard reporting guidelines for laboratories to follow under this section, and must give those guidelines to accredited laboratories, along with other information about the pesticide tolerances that apply.
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(a) In general

Each laboratory or individual that performs, brokers, or otherwise arranges for the performance of a pesticide chemical analysis of food shall prepare and submit a report, simultaneously to the Secretary, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and to the owner of such food, that shall contain any finding of pesticide chemical residues in such food—

(1)

for which no chemical residue tolerance or exemption has been established;

(2)

that is in excess of residue tolerances; or

(3)

for which the chemical residue tolerance has been revoked or the chemical residue is otherwise not permitted by the Environmental Protection Agency.

(b) Timing of report

A laboratory shall submit the report required under subsection (a) to the Secretary, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the owner of such food as soon as practicable after the completion of the analysis of such food.

(c) Guidelines

The Secretary shall adopt standardized reporting guidelines to be applied to laboratories under this section and shall provide such guidelines to laboratories accredited under this chapter, as well as other sources of information regarding applicable pesticide chemical tolerances.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 101–624, title XIII, § 1326, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3565.)

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  • 1990Enacted · Pub. L. 101-624 · 104 Stat. 3565

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 101-624 on 1990-11-28.

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