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Nutrition Labeling of Restaurant Menu and Vending Machine Items

Description: This report discusses nutrition labeling for items on restaurant menus, in vending machines, prepared food at groceries, and entertainment venues which is required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010 but now due to be fully implemented in May 2018.
Date: February 5, 2018
Creator: Dabrowska, Agata
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What Is the Farm Bill?

Description: This report describes the Farm Bill (P.L. 110-246, Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, which was enacted into law on June 18, 2008.
Date: July 23, 2014
Creator: Johnson, Renée & Monke, Jim
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Agriculture and Related Agencies: FY2013 Appropriations

Description: This report discusses the Agriculture appropriations bill—formally known as the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which provides funding for the following agencies: the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Date: January 17, 2013
Creator: Monke, Jim
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FDA Final Rule Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco

Description: This report discusses FDA's initial failed attempt at regulating tobacco products under the then existing provisions of the FFDCA, summarizes FDA's current tobacco rule-reissued pursuant to statutory authority granted under the FSPTCA, and compares the reissued rule's provisions to the youth access, advertising, and marketing restrictions that went into effect pursuant to the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between the states and the tobacco companies.
Date: June 24, 2010
Creator: Redhead, C. Stephen & Garvey, Todd
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FDA’s Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective

Description: The report describes why research on a drug's pharmacokinetics, safety, and effectiveness in children might be necessary. This report then presents why the marketplace has not provided sufficient incentives to manufacturers of drugs approved for adult use to study their effects in children. It also analyzes the impact of BPCA and PREA have had on pediatric drug research.
Date: June 25, 2012
Creator: Thaul, Susan
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The FDA Medical Device User Fee Program

Description: This report describes current law regarding medical device user fees, the impact of MDUFA on FDA review time of various medical device program budget, the MUDFA III proposal (legislative language and performance goals agreement), and issues that Congress is likely to take up as it works on the reauthorization of the medical device user fee program.
Date: April 24, 2012
Creator: Johnson, Judith A.
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The U.S. Farm Economy

Description: Report on the U.S. farms and their economic health, including examinations of crops, livestock, government payments, projected income, expenses, and more.
Date: September 21, 2005
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
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Peanut Program: Evolution from Supply Management to Market Orientation

Description: This report discusses the effect of the overhauled peanut program under the 2002 farm bill which repeals the limit set on the amount of peanuts that farmers can sell domestically for food consumption. Background of the peanut program, market, and legislative activity are also detailed.
Date: August 8, 2002
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
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U.S.-South Korea Beef Dispute: Issues and Status

Description: This report describes the beef provisions in the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) and the separate bilateral protocols that the United States has negotiated in order to secure the lifting of South Korea's ban on U.S. beef imports, imposed after the discovery of mad cow disease in late 2003. It also summarizes U.S. beef export developments to this key market before and after the ban and since these protocols took effect; and lays out the outstanding issues on U.S. beef access that wil… more
Date: September 23, 2010
Creator: Jurenas, Remy & Manyin, Mark E.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Categorical Eligibility

Description: This report discusses categorical eligibility and some of the issues raised by it. It first describes the three different types of categorical eligibility: traditional categorical eligibility conveyed through receipt of need-based cash assistance, and the newer "narrow" and "broad-based" categorical eligibilities conveyed via TANF "noncash" benefits. It also provides recent information on current state practices with regard to categorical eligibility. Finally, the report discusses proposals to … more
Date: September 17, 2013
Creator: Falk, Gene & Aussenberg, Randy Alison
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Food Safety Provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill

Description: The report discusses the food safety provision in the 2008 Farm Bill. Food safety re-emerged as an issue in the 110th Congress following a series of widely publicized incidents — including adulterated Chinese seafood and pet food ingredient imports, findings of bacteria-tainted spinach, meat, and poultry produced domestically, and several large food recalls.
Date: July 1, 2008
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
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The “Farm Bill” in Brief

Description: This report discusses the farm bill, which renewed about every five years, governs federal farm and food policy. The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-171) is the most recent omnibus farm bill, covering a wide range of programs including commodity price and income support, farm credit, agricultural conservation, research, rural development, and foreign and domestic food programs, among others.
Date: May 29, 2007
Creator: Johnson, Renée
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