Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Safe American Food Exports Act of 2023” or the “SAFE Act of 2023”.
Safe American Food Exports Act of 2023
A BILL
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Engagement with key export markets
by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
“(d) Engagement with key export markets
“(1) In general—The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, in coordination with the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, may preemptively negotiate, to the extent practicable, regionalization agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats with the governments of countries with key export markets for any animal, article, or associated means of conveyance from the United States.
“(2) Research—A negotiation carried out under paragraph (1) is encouraged to take into account accepted global research advances.”
Rule of construction— Nothing in this section—
limits the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture to negotiate trade agreements; or
requires the Secretary of Agriculture to condition other trade agreements on the inclusion of language relating to regionalization as described in subsection (d)(1) of section 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 3804).
Sec. 3 Export library administration
The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate a regulation to require that, in the case of any language removed from the Import and Export Library of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service shall directly notify each State department of agriculture, each lead State agency for animal disease, and any entity that petitioned for the inclusion of that language of such removal not later than 3 days after such removal.