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H.R. 3386 · 101st Congress · enacted

Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 1990

Became Public Law No: 101-500.

Latest official action 1990-11-03 · Enacted

The bill, briefly

Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 1990 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations (including standards) with respect to the transportation of food, food additives, drugs, devices, and cosmetics in motor vehicles and rail vehicles which are used to transport either refuse or other nonfood products which, when so transported, would make the food, food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics unsafe to the health of humans or animals. Requires such regulations to prohibit a person from using, offering, or arranging for the use of a tank truck, rail tank car, cargo tank, or motor or rail vehicle to provide transportation of food, additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics if the vehicle is used to transport certain nonfood products. Requires appropriate marking of vehicles and prohibits transportation of items in vehicles marked not to handle them. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register lists of: (1) unsafe nonfood products; and (2) of nonfood products whose common transportation does not make such food, food additives, drugs, devices, or cosmetics unsafe to human or animal health. Requires such regulation to prohibit a person from using, offering for use, or arranging for the use of a motor or rail vehicle to provide transportation of asbestos or products which present an extreme danger to human or animal health, despite decontamination proce…

Congressional Research Service · 1990-10-16

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