Tuesday, September 10, 2024

USDA announces proposed rule to modernize swine inspection

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WASHINGTON — The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced its continued effort to modernize inspection systems through science-based approaches to food safety.

USDA is proposing to amend the federal meat inspection regulations to establish a new voluntary inspection system for market hog slaughter establishments called the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System (NSIS), while also requiring additional pathogen sampling for all swine slaughter establishments.

The proposed rule also allows innovation and flexibility to establishments that are slaughtering market hogs. Market hogs are uniform, healthy, young animals that can be slaughtered and processed in this modernized system more efficiently and. . .

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