---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 2103"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "2103"
heading: "Ensuring efficient and effective communications during a recall"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/2103"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Food Safety"
---

# §2103. Ensuring efficient and effective communications during a recall


The Secretary shall, during an ongoing recall of human or pet food regulated by the Secretary—

- (1) work with companies, relevant professional associations, and other organizations to collect and aggregate information pertaining to the recall;
- (2) use existing networks of communication, including electronic forms of information dissemination, to enhance the quality and speed of communication with the public; and
- (3) post information regarding recalled human and pet foods on the Internet Web site of the Food and Drug Administration in a single location, which shall include a searchable database of recalled human foods and a searchable database of recalled pet foods, that is easily accessed and understood by the public.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–85, title X, § 1003, Sept. 27, 2007, 121 Stat. 963.)