PUBLIC LAW 101-500—NOV. 3, 1990 104 STAT. 1213 Public Law 101-500 101st Congress An Act To prohibit certain food transportation practices and to provide for regulation by the -^^^g jg^Q Secretary of Transportation that will safeguard food and certain other products from contamination during motor or rail transportation, and for other purposes. IH.R. ddSbJ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Sanitary Food Transportation SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Act of 1990. This Act may be cited as the "Sanitary Food Transportation Act 2801 note^^ of 1990". SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 49 USC app. Congress finds that— (1) Americans are entitled to receive food and other consumer products that are not made unsafe as a result of certain transportation practices; (2) the American public is threatened by the transportation of products potentially harmful to consumers in motor vehicles and rail vehicles which are used to transport food and other consumer products; and (3) the risks posed to consumers by such transportation practices are unnecessary, and such practices must be terminated. SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 49 USC app. As used in this Act— (1) FOOD, POOD ADDITIVES, DRUGS, DEVICES, OR COSMETICS. —The terms "food", "food additives", "drugs", "devices", and "cosmetics" have the meanings given to them by section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321). (2) NONFOOD PRODUCT. —The term "nonfood product" means any material, substance, or product (including refuse and solid waste, as such term is defined in section 1004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6903)) which (except as provided under section 4(a)(2)) is not a food, food additive, drug, device, or cosmetic. Such term includes any class of such materials, substances, or products. (3) REFUSE.— The term "refuse" means any discarded material to be transported to or disposed of in a landfill or incinerator, or required by law to be transported to or disposed of in a landfill or incinerator. (4) SECRETARY. —The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Transportation. (5) STATE. —The term "State" means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
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