New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to allow the interstate sale of State-inspected meat and poultry, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 2025
This bill allows meat and poultry products inspected by State Meat and Poultry Inspection programs to be sold in interstate commerce. Under the inspection programs, the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service allows states that meet certain requirements to inspect meat and poultry.
The state-inspected products are currently limited to intrastate commerce, unless a state opts into a separate Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1496: New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1496/
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