U.S. Senator Mike Rounds is reintroducing the “New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act.”
The act would allow products approved by Meat and Poultry Inspection (MPI) programs to be sold across state lines.
Currently, only meat with a federal inspection stamp is allowed to be sold across state lines. Only ten states have chosen to build programs that include this stamp.
The proposed act would expand the option to 29 more states that have federally approved meat and poultry inspection programs to sell meat across state lines.
Rounds said the bill does not disrupt the current federal stamp process but adds more business opportunity for smaller meat and poultry operations.
Federally approved programs are reviewed annually by the Food Safety Inspection Service.
Rounds is co-sponsoring the bill with Sen. Angus King of Maine.
