Safe and Effective Breast Pumps Act
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Safe and Effective Breast Pumps Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services: (1) to put into effect a performance standard for breast pumps irrespective of the class to which the breast pumps have been classified under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; (2) in establishing such standard, to identify those pumps appropriate for use on a regular basis in a place of employment based on the efficiency and effectiveness of the pump and on sanitation factors related to communal use; and (3) acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to issue a compliance policy guide which will assure that women who want to breastfeed a child are given full and complete information respecting breast pumps.
Filed in the House
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Who introduced this
Carolyn Maloney
DU.S. Representative · NY-14
6 cosponsors — mostly Democrats
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