Sponsor
Diana DeGette
Representative · D-CO
Representative · D-CO
The bill strengthens FDA food-safety, nutrition, and packaging oversight and boosts research capacity—improving consumer protection and evidence for policy—while increasing federal costs and imposing new disclosure and compliance burdens that may raise prices and create proprietary/privacy and access trade-offs.
Consumers (broad public, parents, and patients) will face fewer food-safety incidents and faster contamination response because the bill strengthens FDA surveillance, funds related research, and requires better ingredient/recipe access for investigations.
Researchers, nonprofit research organizations, and FDA staff gain new funding, grant programs, and hiring authority that boost regulatory science, technical capacity, and the evidence base for food and nutrition policy.
Infants, young children, and parents will benefit from improved standards and targeted research on infant and specialty formulas that can raise product quality and reduce product failures.
Taxpayers and federal budgets face increased costs because the bill creates new grant programs, centers, committees, and administrative activities that will require appropriations or reallocation of FDA/HHS resources.
Food, supplement, and packaging manufacturers (and ultimately consumers) may face higher compliance, testing, reformulation, and recordkeeping costs—raising prices—due to expanded regulatory tools, disclosure requirements, and recommended packaging limits.
Small producers and firms risk trade‑secret exposure and competitive harm because the bill requires disclosure of recipe‑level ingredient records and previously undisclosed ingredient details to FDA and potentially publicly.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Creates a funded FDA program for food/nutrition research and coordination, requires recipe‑level ingredient disclosure to FDA and public posting of nonlabeled contents, and establishes advisory, grant, and partnership structures.
Official title: To provide the Food and Drug Administration needed authorities to carry out its regulatory mission with respect to human foods, to provide additional resources and authorities with respect to human foods research, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 22, 2026 by Diana DeGette · Last progress April 22, 2026
Creates a new federal framework to fund and coordinate FDA work on nutrition, food safety, food-ingredient transparency, research, and food‑as‑medicine efforts. It calls for a dedicated “Human Foods Innovation Account,” a permanent advisory committee, competitive research grants, a center of excellence linking nutrition and medicines, new disclosure and recordkeeping requirements for processed food ingredients (including nonlabeled ingredients), an exemption from the Paperwork Reduction Act for voluntary FDA research data collections, and public–private partnerships on food packaging chemical safety with recurring reporting to Congress.