Safe Interstate Meat Shipment Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to permit interstate distribution of state-inspected meat and poultry under specified circumstances.
[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2876 Introduced in House (IH)]
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2876
To permit the interstate distribution of State-inspected meat under
appropriate circumstances.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 27, 2007
Mr. Space introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
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A BILL
To permit the interstate distribution of State-inspected meat under
appropriate circumstances.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Interstate Meat Shipment
Act''.
SEC. 2. FEDERAL AND STATE COOPERATION WITH RESPECT TO MEAT INSPECTION.
(a) Waiver of Intrastate Distribution Limitation Under the Federal
Meat Inspection Act.--Section 301(a) of the Federal Meat Inspection Act
(21 U.S.C. 661(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(5)(A) Upon application of an appropriate State agency
with which the Secretary may cooperate under this Act, the
Secretary shall verify that the mandatory requirements of the
State's meat inspection program are at least equal to the
Federal inspection, reinspection, and sanitation requirements
under title I of this Act.
``(B) If the Secretary verifies that the mandatory
inspection requirements of the State from which a State
agency submits an application under subparagraph (A)
are at least equal to Federal inspection requirements--
``(i) the requirement under paragraph (1)
that meat and meat food products inspected
under such State's meat inspection program be
solely for distribution in such State shall not
apply; and
``(ii) the Secretary may perform random
inspections of State-inspected slaughtering,
meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or
similar establishments in such State to ensure
that the State meat inspection program
conducted in such State at least meets the
Federal inspection requirements under title I.
``(C) If after an inspection performed under
subparagraph (B) the Secretary determines that a State-
inspected slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing,
rendering, or similar establishment is not subject to
mandatory inspection requirements at least equal to the
substantive Federal inspection requirements under title
I of this Act, the requirement under paragraph (1) that
meat and meat food products inspected under a State
meat inspection program be solely for distribution in
such State shall apply to such slaughtering, meat-
canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar
establishment until a subsequent inspection verifies
that the establishment is subject to mandatory
inspection requirements at least equal to the Federal
inspection requirements under title I.''.
(b) Waiver of Intrastate Distribution Limitation Under the Poultry
Products Inspection Act.--Section 5(a) of the Poultry Products
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 454(a)) is amended by adding the following
paragraph at the end thereof:
``(5)(A) Upon application of an appropriate State agency
with which the Secretary may cooperate under this Act, the
Secretary shall verify that the mandatory requirements of the
State's poultry product inspection program are at least equal
to the Federal inspection, reinspection, and sanitation
requirements under this Act.
``(B) If the Secretary verifies that the mandatory
inspection requirements of the State from which a State
agency submits an application under subparagraph (A)
are at least equal to Federal inspection requirements--
``(i) the requirement under paragraph (1)
that poultry products inspected under such
State's poultry product inspection program be
solely for distribution in such State shall not
apply; and
``(ii) the Secretary may perform random
inspections of State-inspected official
establishments in such State to ensure that the
State poultry product inspection program
conducted in such State at least meets the
Federal inspection requirements under this Act.
``(C) If after an inspection performed under
subparagraph (B) the Secretary determines that a State-
inspected official establishment is not subject to
mandatory inspection requirements at least equal to the
substantive Federal inspection requirements under this
Act, the requirement under paragraph (1) that poultry
and poultry products inspected under a State poultry
product inspection program be solely for distribution
in such State shall apply to such official
establishment until a subsequent inspection verifies
that the official establishment is subject to mandatory
inspection requirements at least equal to the Federal
inspection requirements under this Act.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
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