---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 374a"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "374a"
heading: "Inspections relating to food allergens"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/374a"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
  - "Subchapter VII — General Authority"
  - "Part A — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §374a. Inspections relating to food allergens


The [Secretary](/usc/21/321.md?p=d) of Health and Human Services shall conduct inspections consistent with the authority under [section 374 of this title](/usc/21/374.md) of [facilities](/usc/21/364.md?p=3-A) in which [foods](/usc/21/321.md?p=f) are manufactured, processed, packed, or held—

- (1) to ensure that the entities operating the [facilities](/usc/21/364.md?p=3-A) comply with practices to reduce or eliminate cross-contact of a [food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f) with residues of [major food allergens](/usc/21/321.md?p=qq) that are not intentional ingredients of the [food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f); and
- (2) to ensure that [major food allergens](/usc/21/321.md?p=qq) are properly labeled on [foods](/usc/21/321.md?p=f).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–282, title II, § 205, Aug. 2, 2004, 118 Stat. 909.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as a part of the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004, and not as part of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which comprises this chapter.