Legislation Would Expand Access to Meat and Poultry

South Dakota senator Mike Rounds has reintroduced the “New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act.”  The bipartisan legislation would allow meat and poultry products inspected by state Meat and Poultry Inspection Programs to be sold across state lines.  Currently, meat and poultry products inspected by those state programs are limited to markets within the same state, even though inspection at a state facility meets or exceeds federal inspection standards.

More than half the states, 29, in total, have their own inspection programs.

This legislation is cosponsored by Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senators Angus King (I-Maine), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.).

Click Here to read the entire bill.

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