HR 852 · in committee · significant
Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act of 2025
- healthcare
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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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How would mandatory farm access for foodborne illness investigations affect the costs and operations of different-sized animal agriculture producers?
- 02
What safeguards should exist to protect farm proprietary information and animal welfare during FDA sampling on concentrated animal-feeding operations?
- 03
What evidence supports that expanded sampling authority would meaningfully improve outbreak detection compared to current FDA investigation methods?
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Sponsor · D-CT-3
Rosa L. DeLauro
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
15/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-01-31
Joining the bill

Rashida Tlaib
D-MI-12 · original

Nanette Diaz Barragán
D-CA-44 · original

André Carson
D-IN-7 · original

Seth Moulton
D-MA-6 · original

Eleanor Holmes Norton
D-DC · original

Janice D. Schakowsky
D-IL-9 · original

Julia Brownley
D-CA-26 · original

Raúl M. Grijalva
D-AZ-7 · original

Glenn Ivey
D-MD-4 · original

Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.
D-GA-4 · original

Grace Meng
D-NY-6 · original

Jesús G. "Chuy" García
D-IL-4
+ 3 more
Legislative timeline
2025-01-31 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2025-01-31 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-01-31 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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