The simple request the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) made last August, was read into the record in November, and now, in January, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has nixed the idea.
ODA asked the FSIS to remove or revise 9 CFR 318.1(h)(2) to allow federal establishments to incorporate state-inspected meat into products that bear the USDA mark of inspection.