Olive Oil Standards Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the FDA Commissioner, to establish standards of identity and grade standards for individual grades of olive oil and olive-pomace oil. The standards must cover quality and purity parameters for extra virgin olive oil, virgin olive oil, olive oil, refined olive oil, lampante olive oil, olive-pomace oil, refined olive-pomace oil, and crude olive-pomace oil; methods of analysis based on American Oil Chemist Society, International Organization for Standardization, or International Olive Oil Council accreditation methods; and mandatory labeling requirements consistent with the grade standards and federal food-labeling law.
Who Benefits and How
Consumers, compliant olive oil producers, reputable bottlers, and honest marketers benefit from clearer grade labels, quality standards, purity standards, and testing methods that can reduce mislabeling and quality confusion. Importers and retailers may also benefit from a more consistent federal standard for comparing olive oil grades.
Who Bears the Burden and How
FDA food-labeling staff, olive oil producers, bottlers, marketers, importers, and retailers must comply with new federal identity, grade, analysis, purity, quality, and labeling requirements. Producers or marketers selling lower-grade or mislabeled products may face reformulation, relabeling, testing, enforcement, or market-access costs.
Key Provisions
- Requires FDA to establish standards of identity for individual olive oil grades.
- Requires grade standards for olive oil and olive-pomace oil sold by U.S. producers, bottlers, and marketers.
- Requires quality and purity parameters for eight named olive oil and olive-pomace oil grades.
- Requires accredited methods of analysis for olive oil characteristics.
- Requires mandatory labeling rules consistent with the new grade standards.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Require FDA standards of identity, grade standards, analysis methods, and labeling rules for olive oil and olive-pomace oil sold by U.S. commercial producers, bottlers, and marketers.
Key Policy Areas
Food Safety, Consumer Protection, Agriculture
Primary Purpose
Require FDA standards of identity, grade standards, analysis methods, and labeling rules for olive oil and olive-pomace oil sold by U.S. commercial producers, bottlers, and marketers.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Consumers purchasing olive oil
- Compliant olive oil producers
- Olive oil bottlers
- Olive oil marketers
- Retailers selling olive oil
Identified Costs
- FDA food-labeling staff
- Olive oil producers
- Olive oil bottlers
- Olive oil marketers
- Olive oil importers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Harder of California (for himself and Mr. Valadao) introduced …
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Olive oil bottlers, Olive oil marketers, Olive oil producers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Beneficiaries"
- → ['Consumers', 'Producers', 'Bottlers', 'Marketers', 'Retailers']
- "Regulated actors"
- → ['FDA staff', 'Producers', 'Bottlers', 'Marketers', 'Importers']
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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