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HR 852 · in committee · significant

Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The FDA can request access to large animal farms to collect samples for investigating foodborne illness outbreaks.
  • Concentrated animal-feeding operations must allow sampling of plants, animals, water, and environments.
  • Farms that refuse access face penalties; data collected is shared with USDA and health agencies.

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    How would mandatory farm access for foodborne illness investigations affect the costs and operations of different-sized animal agriculture producers?

  2. 02

    What safeguards should exist to protect farm proprietary information and animal welfare during FDA sampling on concentrated animal-feeding operations?

  3. 03

    What evidence supports that expanded sampling authority would meaningfully improve outbreak detection compared to current FDA investigation methods?

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Rosa L. DeLauro

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Introduced 2025-01-31

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-31 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

  2. 2025-01-31 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-01-31 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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