---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 4403"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "4403"
heading: "Ingredient reporting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/4403"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education"
---

# §4403. Ingredient reporting

- (a) **In general—**
  - (1) Each [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) who manufactures, [packages](/usc/15/4408.md?p=4), or imports [smokeless tobacco](/usc/15/4408.md?p=1) products shall annually provide the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) with—
    - (A) a list of the ingredients added to tobacco in the manufacture of [smokeless tobacco](/usc/15/4408.md?p=1) products which does not identify the company which uses the ingredients or the brand of [smokeless tobacco](/usc/15/4408.md?p=1) which contains the ingredients; and
    - (B) a specification of the quantity of nicotine contained in each such product.
  - (2) A [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) or group of [persons](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) required to provide information by this subsection may designate an individual or entity to provide the information required by this subsection.
- (b) **Report—**
  - (1) At such times as the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) considers appropriate, the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) shall transmit to the Congress a report, based on the information provided under [subsection (a)](#a), respecting—
    - (A) a summary of research activities and proposed research activities on the health effects of ingredients added to tobacco in the manufacture of [smokeless tobacco](/usc/15/4408.md?p=1) products and the findings of such research;
    - (B) information pertaining to any such ingredient which in the judgment of the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) poses a health risk to users of [smokeless tobacco](/usc/15/4408.md?p=1); and
    - (C) any other information which the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) determines to be in the public interest.
  - (2)
    - (A) Any information provided to the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be treated as a trade secret or confidential information subject to [section 552(b)(4) of title 5](/usc/5/552.md?p=b-4) and shall not be revealed, except as provided in [paragraph (1)](#b-1), to any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) other than those authorized by the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) in carrying out their official duties under this section.
    - (B) [Subparagraph (A)](#b-2-A) does not authorize the withholding of information provided under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section from any duly authorized subcommittee or committee of the Congress. If a subcommittee or committee of the Congress requests the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) to provide it such information, the [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) shall make the information available to the subcommittee or committee and shall, at the same time, notify in writing the [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) who provided the information of such request.
    - (C) The [Secretary](/usc/15/4408.md?p=6) shall establish written procedures to assure the confidentiality of information provided under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section. Such procedures shall include the designation of a duly authorized agent to serve as custodian of such information. The agent—
      - (i) shall take physical possession of the information and, when not in use by any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) authorized to have access to such information, shall store it in a locked cabinet or file; and
      - (ii) shall maintain a complete record of any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) who inspects or uses the information.

      Such procedures shall require that any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) permitted access to the information shall be instructed in writing not to disclose the information to anyone who is not entitled to have access to the information.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–252, § 4, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 32.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Subsec. (a) effective one year after Feb. 27, 1986, and subsec. (b) effective Feb. 27, 1986, see section 11 of Pub. L. 99–252, set out as a note under section 4401 of this title.