To ban the sale of products with a high concentration of sodium nitrite to individuals, and for other purposes.
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Youth Poisoning Protection Act treats any consumer product with a high concentration of sodium nitrite as a banned hazardous product under section 8 of the Consumer Product Safety Act. High concentration means 10 percent or more sodium nitrite by weight. The ban takes effect 90 days after enactment. The bill does not prohibit commercial or industrial uses where high-concentration sodium nitrite is not customarily produced or distributed for consumer use, and it does not apply to sodium nitrite that qualifies as a drug, device, cosmetic, food, poultry product, meat product, or egg product under existing food and drug laws.
Who Benefits and How
Consumers, youth, parents, suicide-prevention advocates, poison control centers, emergency physicians, first responders, and online marketplace safety teams benefit from reduced consumer access to concentrated sodium nitrite products that can cause severe poisoning. Food processors, meat processors, poultry processors, egg product producers, drug manufacturers, cosmetic manufacturers, and industrial users benefit from explicit exclusions preserving lawful non-consumer and regulated uses.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Consumer chemical retailers, online sellers, marketplace compliance teams, sodium nitrite manufacturers serving consumer channels, distributors of concentrated sodium nitrite, Consumer Product Safety Commission enforcement staff, and import compliance teams must stop consumer sales of products at or above the 10 percent threshold, classify covered products as banned hazardous products, update listings and inventory, and distinguish exempt commercial, industrial, food, drug, device, and cosmetic uses.
Key Provisions
- Requires consumer products with 10 percent or more sodium nitrite to be treated as banned hazardous products under the Consumer Product Safety Act.
- Establishes high concentration of sodium nitrite as 10 percent or more by weight.
- Protects commercial and industrial uses not customarily produced or distributed for consumer use.
- Limits the ban by excluding drugs, devices, cosmetics, food, poultry products, meat products, and egg products.
- Provides a 90-day delayed effective date after enactment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Makes consumer products containing 10 percent or more sodium nitrite by weight banned hazardous products under the Consumer Product Safety Act, while preserving commercial or industrial uses and excluding drugs, devices, cosmetics, food, poultry, meat, and egg products.
Key Policy Areas
Consumer Safety, Chemical Products, Public Health
Primary Purpose
Makes consumer products containing 10 percent or more sodium nitrite by weight banned hazardous products under the Consumer Product Safety Act, while preserving commercial or industrial uses and excluding drugs, devices, cosmetics, food, poultry, meat, and egg products.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Consumers
- Youth
- Parents
- Poison control centers
- Emergency physicians
- First responders
- Food processors
- Industrial sodium nitrite users
Identified Costs
- Consumer chemical retailers
- Online sellers
- Marketplace compliance teams
- Sodium nitrite manufacturers
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Import compliance teams
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseRead twice and placed on the calendar
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the …
Mrs. Trahan (for herself, Mr. Carey, and Mr. Neguse) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Consumer chemical retailers, Online marketplace compliance teams
Commercial sodium nitrite users, Sodium nitrite manufacturers serving consumer channels
Positive-direction: Commercial sodium nitrite users
Negative-direction: Sodium nitrite manufacturers serving consumer channels
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
Youth Poisoning Protection Act
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "high_concentration"
- → Sodium nitrite concentration of 10 percent or more by weight.
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