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[CITE: 7USC1431c]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 35A--PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1431c. Enrichment and packaging of cornmeal, grits, rice, 
        and white flour available for distribution
        
    (a) In order to insure the nutritional value of cornmeal, grits, 
rice, and white flour when such foods are made available for 
distribution under section 1431(3) \1\ of this title or for distribution 
to schools under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act [42 
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.] or any other Act, such foods shall be enriched so 
as to meet the standards for enriched cornmeal, enriched corn grits, 
enriched rice, or enriched flour, as the case may be, prescribed in 
regulations promulgated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
[21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.]; and in order to protect the nutritional value 
and sanitary quality of such enriched foods during transportation and 
storage such foods shall be packaged in sanitary containers. For 
convenience and ease in handling, the weight of any sanitary container 
when filled shall not exceed fifty pounds unless a larger container is 
requested by the recipient agency. Nothing in this section shall 
prohibit the distribution of fortified parboiled rice which is 
substantially equal in nutritional value to that of enriched rice.
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    (b) The term ``sanitary container'' means any container of such 
material and construction as (1) will not permit the infiltration of 
foreign matter into the contents of such container under ordinary 
conditions of shipping and handling, and (2) will not, for a period of 
at least one year, disintegrate so as to contaminate the contents of the 
container, necessitating the washing of the contents prior to use.

(Pub. L. 86-341, title II, Sec. 201, Sept. 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 610; Pub. 
L. 87-803, Oct. 11, 1962, 76 Stat. 910; Pub. L. 106-78, title VII, 
Sec. 752(b)(3), Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1169.)

                       References in Text

    Section 1431(3) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was 
redesignated as section 1431(a)(3) of this title by Pub. L. 98-258, 
title V, Sec. 502(1), Apr. 10, 1984, 98 Stat. 137.
    The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, referred to in 
subsec. (a), is act June 4, 1946, ch. 281, 60 Stat. 230, as amended, 
which is classified generally to chapter 13 (Sec. 1751 et seq.) of Title 
42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1751 of 
Title 42 and Tables.
    The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, referred to in subsec. 
(a), is act June 25, 1938, ch. 675, 52 Stat. 1040, as amended, which is 
classified generally to chapter 9 (Sec. 301 et seq.) of Title 21, Food 
and Drugs. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
section 301 of Title 21 and Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 1949 
which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete 
classification of the 1949 Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 1421 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-78 substituted ``Richard B. Russell 
National School Lunch Act'' for ``National School Lunch Act''.
    1962--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 87-803 inserted provisions requiring the 
enrichment of rice to meet the standards for enriched rice, empowered 
recipient agencies to request containers larger than 50 pounds, and 
provided that nothing in this section shall prohibit the distribution of 
fortified parboiled rice which is substantially equal in nutritional 
value to that of enriched rice.
