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[CITE: 7USC7654]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER 103--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION REFORM
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
                             Part B--General
 
Sec. 7654. Food Safety Research Information Office and national 
        conference
        

(a) Food Safety Research Information Office

                          (1) Establishment

        The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a Food Safety 
    Research Information Office at the National Agricultural Library.

                             (2) Purpose

        The Office shall provide to the research community and the 
    general public information on publicly funded, and to the maximum 
    extent practicable, privately funded food safety research 
    initiatives for the purpose of--
            (A) preventing unintended duplication of food safety 
        research; and
            (B) assisting the executive and legislative branches of the 
        Federal Government and private research entities to assess food 
        safety research needs and priorities.

                           (3) Cooperation

        The Office shall carry out this subsection in cooperation with 
    the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, 
    the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, public institutions, 
    and, on a voluntary basis, private research entities.

(b) National conference; annual workshops

    Not later than 120 days after June 23, 1998, the Secretary shall 
sponsor a conference to be known as the ``National Conference on Food 
Safety Research'', for the purpose of beginning the task of 
prioritization of food safety research. The Secretary shall sponsor 
annual workshops in each of the subsequent 4 years after the conference 
so that priorities can be updated or adjusted to reflect changing food 
safety concerns.

(c) Food safety report

    With regard to the study and report to be prepared by the National 
Academy of Sciences on the scientific and organizational needs for an 
effective food safety system, the study shall include recommendations to 
ensure that the food safety inspection system, within the resources 
traditionally available to existing food safety agencies, protects the 
public health.

(Pub. L. 105-185, title VI, Sec. 615, June 23, 1998, 112 Stat. 606.)
