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Food Safety: Procedures for Inspecting Canadian Meat Imports

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 2, 1997
Report No. T-RCED-97-121
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Summary:

This testimony discusses the U.S system for inspecting Canadian meat imports. GAO (1) describes the Food Safety Inspection Service's (FSIS) system for selecting and inspecting imported meat products, (2) examines the availability of equipment at import inspection facilities along the Canadian border that enable the full inspection of meat shipped in trucks, and (3) assesses the effectiveness of FSIS' new procedure to verify that carcass samples selected by Canadian inspectors are representative of the entire shipment.

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