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[CITE: 21USC1403]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
              CHAPTER 19--PESTICIDE MONITORING IMPROVEMENTS
 
Sec. 1403. Pesticide analytical methods

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in consultation 
with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency--
        (1) develop a detailed long-range plan and timetable for 
    research that is necessary for the development of and validation 
    of--
            (A) new and improved analytical methods capable of detecting 
        at one time the presence of multiple pesticide residues in food, 
        and
            (B) rapid pesticide analytical methods, and

        (2) conduct a review to determine whether the use of rapid 
    pesticide analytical methods by the Secretary would enable the 
    Secretary to improve the cost-effectiveness of monitoring and 
    enforcement activities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
    Act [21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.], including increasing the number of 
    pesticide residues which can be detected and the number of tests for 
    pesticide residues which can be conducted in a cost-effective 
    manner.

The Secretary shall report the plan developed under paragraph (1), the 
resources necessary to carry out the research described in such 
paragraph, recommendations for the implementation of such research, and 
the result of the review conducted under paragraph (2) not later than 
the expiration of 240 days after August 23, 1988, to the Committee on 
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the Committee on Labor and 
Human Resources of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

(Pub. L. 100-418, title IV, Sec. 4704, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1414.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, referred to in text, is 
act June 25, 1938, ch. 675, 52 Stat. 1040, as amended, which is 
classified generally to chapter 9 (Sec. 301 et seq.) of this title. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 301 of this 
title and Tables.
