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Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014

H.R. 4430 · 113th Congress · Apr 8, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to ensure that certain facilities continue to be treated as alcohol-related facilities, notwithstanding the distribution of spent grains resulting from the production of alcoholic beverages.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act of 2014”.

Sec. 2 Applicability of exemption to alcohol-related facilities that distribute spent grains

Section 116 of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (21 U.S.C. 2206) is amended—
(1)
by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
(2)
by inserting after subsection (b) the following:

“(c) Spent grains—Notwithstanding subsection (b), the exemption in subsection (a) shall not cease to apply to a facility on the basis of such facility distributing, for use as food for animals, spent grains resulting from the facility’s production of alcoholic beverages.”

(3)
in subsection (d), as redesignated, by striking “Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b)” and inserting “Except as provided in subsections (a), (b), and (c)”.