US: SLAUGHTER INSPECTION 101 - (FSIS News Release)
February 22, 2008 – 7:46 pmhttp://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=2008/02/0055.xml
About The Food Safety and Inspection Service
* USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is responsible for ensuring the safety and wholesomeness of meat, poultry, and processed egg products and ensures that it is accurately labeled.
* FSIS enforces the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) and the Egg Products Inspection Act. These laws require Federal inspection and regulation of meat, poultry, and processed egg products prepared for distribution in commerce for use as human food.
* FSIS employs about 7,800 inspection program personnel. They inspect more than 6,200 federally inspected establishments. These establishments vary greatly in size and type of activity conducted.
INSPECTION BASICS
* Industry is accountable for producing safe food.
* Government is responsible for:
* - - - setting appropriate food safety standards,
* - - - verifying through inspection that those standards are met, and
* - - - maintaining a strong enforcement program to deal with plants […]
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