21 U.S.C. § 1402
Foreign pesticide information
United States · Title 21 — FOOD AND DRUGS · Status: effective
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- 21 U.S.C. § 1402, Foreign pesticide information, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/454785
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall enter into cooperative agreements with the governments of the countries which are the major sources of food imports into the United States subject to pesticide residue monitoring by the Food and Drug Administration for the purpose of improving the ability of the Food and Drug Administration to assure compliance with the pesticide tolerance requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.] with regard to imported food.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall—
Not later than one year after August 23, 1988, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall report to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the activities undertaken by the Secretary to implement this section. The report shall be made available to appropriate Federal and State agencies and to interested persons.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally