---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 U.S.C. § 217"
title: "27"
title_heading: "Intoxicating Liquors"
number: "217"
heading: "Report to Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/27/217"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Federal Alcohol Administration Act"
  - "Subchapter II — Alcoholic Beverage Labeling"
---

# §217. Report to Congress


If, after appropriate investigation and consultation with the Surgeon General carried out after the expiration of the 24-month period following November 18, 1988, the [Secretary](/usc/27/214.md?p=9) finds that available scientific information would justify a change in, addition to, or deletion of the statement, or any part thereof, set forth in [section 215(a) of this title](/usc/27/215.md?p=a), the [Secretary](/usc/27/214.md?p=9) shall promptly report such information to the Congress together with specific recommendations for such amendments to this subchapter as the [Secretary](/usc/27/214.md?p=9) determines to be appropriate and in the public interest.


## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title II, § 206, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4520.)