Food Date Labeling Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Food Date Labeling Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Agriculture, Technology.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H42BFDBF4B1934DEF9F0E5FFE24778617: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Food Date Labeling Act of 2025.
- Section H22D1E6C24AFF42438234666351CB9F47: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term administering Secretaries means— the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to any product that is— under the jurisdiction...
- Section H61B010B85459417BA6A4E003CF96E66D: 3. Quality date phrases and discard date phrases If a quality date is used on a food package, such quality date shall be proceeded by the uniform quality date...
- Section HF925FA82D28B43E5A63FCA4E419B5302: 4. Misbranding Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 343) is amended by adding at the end the following: If the label bears a...
- Section id2d061b7ec450485898868b11ef8d4a9e: 5. Regulations Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the administering Secretaries, in coordination with each other, shall promulgate...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Food Date Labeling Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Agriculture, Technology
Primary Purpose
This bill, Food Date Labeling Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Blumenthal (for himself and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_agriculture"
- → Secretary of Agriculture
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a phrase voluntarily printed on a food packaging that is intended to communicate to consumers when— the quality of the product may begin to deteriorate
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