Imported Meat and Livestock: Chemical Residue Detection and the Issue of Labeling

摘要

The report responds to Section 1703 of the Food Security Act of 1985, which requires studying the U.S. Department of agriculture's effectiveness in detecting prohibited chemical residues and foreign matter in imported meat items and prohibited chemical residues in live animals. The report evaluates the feasibility of requiring that foreign processing plants eligible to export meat items to the United States submit to the Department quality control reports relating to their product purity and inspection procedures. The report also evaluates the feasibility of requiring that all imported meat and meat food products bear a label stating the country of origin.