During the pandemic, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service largely replaced its in-country visitation teams with so-called remote verification audits. FSIS audits foreign countries that export meat and eggs to the United States to verify that equivalent food safety standards exist.
Typically, that means teams from the FSIS Office of
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Japan’s export of raw intact beef to the United States came in for review earlier this year in the form of an on-site equivalence verification audit by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. FSIS auditors visited Japan from Jan. 27 to Feb. 14.
The audit report was released on July
Continue Reading Japan’s export of raw intact beef to United States has more issues now than two years ago
Israel exports ready-to-eat fully cooked and not shelf-stable poultry products to the United States. And those exports may continue, according to a report by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
That’s because Israel has passed its latest foreign equivalency audit by the United States. The audit did not turn
Continue Reading Israel’s food safety inspections found equivalent to USA for poultry exports
Denmark’s Ministry of Environment and Food has agreed to take corrective actions in two areas identified by a USDA audit of its food safety system for pork products exported to the United States.
During an in-country equivalence verification audit, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Sevice (FSIS) found Denmark’s Veterinary and
Continue Reading No food safety deficiencies found in Denmark’s pork exports to the United States
Uruguay exports raw and processed beef and lamb products to the United States, and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) finds no reason that those shipments cannot continue.
The FSIS performed an on-site equivalence verification audit in Uruguay Dec. 2 to Dec. 13, 2019, without identifying any systemic findings
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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) sent one of its auditors back to Argentina this past December to confirm that the South American country was making the corrective actions requested in the regular 2019 audit.
The follow-up audit, with an in-country visit from Dec. 2 to Dec. 6, 2019,
Continue Reading Auditor sent to Buenos Aires to double check on Argentina’s meat exports
Between USDA’s on-site verification audit of the United Kingdom’s meat inspection system July 15-Aug.2, 2019, and last Friday’s public release of the report, Britain left the European Union.
The report, which contains “no systemic findings,” does acknowledge the audit was conducted before Jan. 31, 2020, when the UK implemented Brexit
Continue Reading New equivalency audit for UK meat was completed under EU regulations
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service sent it’s auditors to Namibia this past September to conduct a foreign equivalency audit for the country’s raw beef exports to the United States. And on one level, it was a fairly simple assignment.
But, it also ended up being historic because it was
Continue Reading Final corrective actions cleared Namibia to export its first raw beef to U.S.
A foreign audit report for Hungary has been released to the public by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The in-country inspection occurred from July 22 through Aug. 2, 2019, and earned approval for Hungary’s system.
The audit’s purpose was to evaluate Hungary’s food safety systems governing meat products
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Non-ambulatory veal slaughtered in the Netherlands will no longer be exported to the United States.
Dr. C.J.M. Bruschke, the chief veterinary officer for the Netherlands, has promised to keep veal calves that cannot walk from entering the U.S. food supply.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service recently completed on-site audits
Continue Reading USDA completes equivalency audits for the Netherlands, Ireland and Costa Rica
