FSIS Outlines Country Approval Procedures for Meat, Poultry & Egg Exporters
The Food Safety and Inspection Service outlined its procedures for determining the equivalence of foreign regulatory systems to U.S. import requirements for meat, poultry, and egg products. If a country’s regulatory system is deemed equivalent, the U.S. allows imports of…
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meat, poultry, and egg products from that country. The equivalency procedure includes annual document reviews, on-site systems audits at least every three years, and port of entry reinspections. FSIS decides how often to conduct on-site audits and port reinspections based on each country’s performance, allowing the agency to target resources on riskier exporters, it said.