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21 U.S.C. § 679a — Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel

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21 U.S.C. § 679a — Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel

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**(a) Establishment** There is established in the Department of Agriculture a permanent advisory panel to be known as the “Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel” (referred to in this section as the “panel”). **(b) Duties** (1) **Review and evaluation** — The panel shall review and evaluate, as the panel considers necessary, the adequacy, necessity, safety, cost-effectiveness, and scientific merit of— (A) inspection procedures of, and work rules and worker relations involving Federal employees employed in, plants inspected under this chapter; (B) informal petitions or proposals for changes in inspection procedures, processes, and techniques of plants inspected under this chapter; (C) formal changes in meat inspection regulations promulgated under this chapter, whether in notice, proposed, or final form; and (D) such other matters as may be referred to the panel by the Secretary regarding the quality or effectiveness of a safe and cost-effective meat inspection system under this chapter. (2) **Reports** (A) *In general* — The panel shall submit to the Secretary a report on the results of each review and evaluation carried out under paragraph (1), including such recommendations as the panel considers appropriate. (B) *Reports on formal changes* — In the case of a report concerning a formal change in meat inspection regulations, the report shall be made within the time limits prescribed for formal comments on such changes. (C) *Publication in Federal Register* — Each report of the panel to the Secretary shall be published in the Federal Register. **(c) Secretarial response** Not later than 90 days after the publication of a panel report under subsection (b)(2)(C), the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register any response required of the Secretary to the report. **(d) Composition of panel** The panel shall be composed of 7 members, not fewer than 5 of whom shall be from the food science, meat science, or poultry science profession, appointed to staggered terms not to exceed 3 years by the Secretary from nominations received from the National Institutes of Health and the Federation of American Societies of Food Animal Science and based on the professional qualifications of the nominees. **(e) Nominations** (1) **Initial panel** — In constituting the initial panel, the Secretary shall solicit 6 nominees from the National Institutes of Health and 6 nominees from the Federation of American Societies of Food Animal Science for membership on the panel. (2) **Vacancies** — Any subsequent vacancy on the panel shall be filled by the Secretary after soliciting 2 nominees from the National Institutes of Health and 2 nominees from the Federation of American Societies of Food Animal Science. (3) **Requirements for nominees** (A) *In general* — Each nominee provided under paragraph (1) or (2) shall have a background in public health issues and a scientific expertise in food, meat, or poultry science or in veterinary science. (B) *Submission of information* — The Secretary may require nominees to submit such information as the Secretary considers necessary prior to completing the selection process. (4) **Additional nominees** — If any list of nominees provided under paragraph (1) or (2) is unsatisfactory to the Secretary, the Secretary may request the nominating entities to submit an additional list of nominees. **(f) Travel expenses** While away from the home or regular place of business of a member of the panel in the performance of services for the panel, the member shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at the same rate as a person employed intermittently in the Government service would be allowed under [section 5703 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5703&num=0&edition=prelim). **(g) Conflicts of interest** The Secretary shall promulgate regulations regarding conflicts of interest with respect to the members of the panel. **(h) Exemption** Chapter 10 of title 5 and title XVIII of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 ([7 U.S.C. 2281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2281&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) shall not apply to the panel. **(i) Funding** From funds available to the Secretary to carry out this chapter and the Poultry Products Inspection Act ([21 U.S.C. 451](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section451&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), the Secretary shall allocate such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

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21 U.S.C. § 680 — Authorization of appropriations

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

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21 U.S.C. § 451 — Congressional statement of findings

Poultry and poultry products are an important source of the Nation’s total supply of food. They are consumed throughout the Nation and the major portion thereof moves in interstate or foreign commerce. It is essential in the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that poultry products distributed to them are wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled, and packaged. Unwholesome, adulterated, or misbranded poultry products impair the effective regulation of poultry products in interstate or foreign commerce, are injurious to the public welfare, destroy markets for wholesome, not adulterated, and properly labeled and packaged poultry products, and result in sundry losses to poultry producers and processors of poultry and poultry products, as well as injury to consumers. It is hereby found that all articles and poultry which are regulated under this chapter are either in interstate or foreign commerce or substantially affect such commerce, and that regulation by the Secretary of Agriculture and cooperation by the States and other jurisdictions as contemplated by this chapter are appropriate to prevent and eliminate burdens upon such commerce, to effectively regulate such commerce, and to protect the health and welfare of consumers.

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5 U.S.C. § 5703 — Per diem, travel, and transportation expenses; experts and consultants; individuals serving without pay

An employee serving intermittently in the Government service as an expert or consultant and paid on a daily when-actually-employed basis, or serving without pay or at $1 a year, may be allowed travel or transportation expenses, under this subchapter, while away from his home or regular place of business and at the place of employment or service.

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7 U.S.C. § 2281 — Congressional declaration of purpose

The purposes of this chapter are to— (1) require strict financial and program accounting by advisory committees of the Department of Agriculture; (2) assure balance and objectivity in the membership of such advisory committees; and (3) prevent the formation or continuation of unnecessary advisory committees by the Department of Agriculture.

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7 U.S.C. § 1281 — Administrative expenses; posting names and compensation of local employees

**(a)** The Secretary is authorized and directed to make such expenditures as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and sections 590g, 590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16, including personal services and rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies and equipment; lawbooks, books of reference, directories, periodicals, and newspapers; and the preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at community, county, State, interstate, and international fairs within the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed upon the request of the Secretary to establish one or more separate appropriation accounts into which there shall be transferred from the respective funds available for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16, in connection with which personnel or other facilities of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration are utilized, proportionate amounts estimated by the Secretary to be required by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for administrative expenses in carrying out or cooperating in carrying out any of the provisions of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16. **(b)** In the administration of this subchapter and sections 590g, 590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16, the aggregate amount expended in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, including regional offices, and in the several States (not including the expenses of county and local committees) shall not exceed 3 per centum of the total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter and chapter 3B of title 16, unless otherwise provided by appropriation or oth

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21 U.S.C. § 471 — Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel

**(a) Review and evaluation** The advisory panel known as the “Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel” established by [section 679a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section679a&num=0&edition=prelim) shall review and evaluate, as the panel considers necessary, the adequacy, necessity, safety, cost-effectiveness, and scientific merit of— (1) inspection procedures of, and work rules and worker relations involving Federal employees employed in, plants inspected under this chapter; (2) informal petitions or proposals for changes in inspection procedures, processes, and techniques of plants inspected under this chapter; (3) formal changes in poultry inspection regulations promulgated under this chapter, whether in notice, proposed, or final form; and (4) such other matters as may be referred to the panel by the Secretary regarding the quality or effectiveness of a safe and cost-effective poultry inspection system under this chapter. **(b) Reports** (1) **In general** — The Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel shall submit to the Secretary a report on the results of each review and evaluation carried out under paragraph (1), including such recommendations as the panel considers appropriate. (2) **Reports on formal changes** — In the case of a report concerning a formal change in poultry inspection regulations, the report shall be made within the time limits prescribed for formal comments on such changes.

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21 U.S.C. § 451 — Congressional statement of findings

Page 718 TITLE 21—FOOD AND DRUGS § 451 or actual charges for personal services, mate- rials, equipment, information technology, and other expenses. Charges for equipment and in- formation technology shall include costs associ- ated with maintenance, repair, and depreciation (including improvement and replacement). (b) Appropriations Of any discretionary resources appropriated in this Act for fiscal year 2018 for ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Ad- ministration, Salaries and Expenses’’, not to ex- ceed $5,000,000 of amounts available as of Sep- tember 30 may be transferred to and merged with the Fund established under subsection (a), notwithstanding any otherwise applicable pur- pose limitations. (c) Emergency funds excluded No amounts may be transferred pursuant to this section that are designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a con- current resolution on the budget or the Bal- anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. (Pub. L. 115–141, div. A, title VII, § 722, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 387.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is div. A of Pub. L. 115–141, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 351, known as the Ag- riculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Adminis- tration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, referred to in subsec. (c), is title II of Pub. L. 99–177, Dec. 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 1038, which enacted chapter 20 (§ 900 et seq.) and sections 654 to 656 of Title 2, The Congress, amended sections 602, 622, 631 to 642, and 651 to 653 of Title 2, sections 1104 to 1106, and 1109 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and

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21 U.S.C. § 679a — Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel

Page 766 TITLE 21—FOOD AND DRUGS § 678 1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘requirements’’. text, which related to immunity of witnesses, were re- pealed by sections 211 and 242, respectively, of Pub. L. 91–452, Oct. 15, 1970, title II, 84 Stat. 929, 930. For provi- sions relating to immunity of witnesses, see section 6001 et seq. of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. § 678. Non-Federal jurisdiction of federally regu- lated matters; prohibition of additional or different requirements for establishments with inspection services and as to marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredients; record- keeping and related requirements; concur- rent jurisdiction over distribution for human food purposes of adulterated or misbranded and imported articles; other matters Requirements within the scope of this chapter with respect to premises, facilities and oper- ations of any establishment at which inspection is provided under subchapter I of this chapter, which are in addition to, or different than those made under this chapter may not be imposed by any State or Territory or the District of Colum- bia, except that any such jurisdiction may im- pose recordkeeping and other requirements within the scope of section 642 of this title, if consistent therewith, with respect to any such establishment. Marking, labeling, packaging, or ingredient requirements in addition to, or dif- ferent than, those made under this chapter may not be imposed by any State or Territory or the District of Columbia with respect to articles prepared at any establishment under inspection in accordance with the requirements under sub- chapter I of this chapter, but any State or Terri- tory or the District of Columbia may, consistent with the requirements under this chapter, exer- cis

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7 U.S.C. § 2281 — Congressional declaration of purpose

Page 1491 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 2282 Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries DEFINITION OF ‘‘SECRETARY’’ ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 2 of Pub. L. 115–334, set out as a note under sec- tion 9001 of this title. § 2279l. National Detector Dog Training Center (a) In general There is established a National Detector Dog Training Center (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Center’’). (b) Duties The Center shall have the following duties: (1) Training dogs for the purpose of safe- guarding domestic agricultural and natural re- sources from foreign and invasive pests and diseases. (2) Training human handlers to successfully select and train dogs for the purpose described in paragraph (1). (3) Collaborating with relevant Federal agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to safeguard domestic agricultural and natural resources. (4) Collaborating with external stakeholders, including State departments of agriculture, local and county agricultural officials, private sector entities, and other relevant non-Federal partners. (5) Ensuring the health and welfare of all dogs under the care of the Center, including by ensuring access to necessary veterinary care, adequate shelter, and proper nutrition. (6) Providing opportunities for private adop- tion of retirement-age trained dogs and dogs that do not complete training. (7) Any other duties necessary to safeguard domestic agricultural and natural resources from foreign and invasive pests and diseases, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Ani- mal and Plant Health Inspection Service. (Pub. L. 118–191, § 2, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2658.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This section, referred to in su

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