Food Safety and Inspection Service
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| Food Safety and Inspection Service | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | March 14, 1977 |
| Headquarters | 1301 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. |
| Employees | 9,500 |
| Agency Executives | Elizabeth Johnson, Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety H. Scott Hurd, Deputy Under Secretary of the Office of Food Safety Alfred V. Almanza, Administrator Bryce Quick, Deputy Administrator |
| Parent agency | Department of Agriculture |
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| www.fsis.usda.gov | |
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), recently commemorated over 100 years of protecting the food supply under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). FSIS is the public health agency responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged. This includes all food products that contain more than 6-7% meat products.
More than 7,800 FSIS inspection program personnel are assigned to approximately 6,200 Federal slaughter, food processing, and import establishments in the United States. They verify that the processing of tens of billions of pounds of meat and poultry, and billions of pounds of liquid egg products are presented for import inspection at U.S. ports and borders from countries that FSIS has determined to have inspection systems equivalent to Federal inspection systems.
Everyone in the food chain, from farmer through consumer, has a responsibility in keeping the food supply safe. Meat, poultry, and processed egg products can be contaminated with bacteria at any point during production, distribution, and consumption. FSIS works closely with other Federal agencies that have some role in the regulation of meat, poultry, and processed egg products along the farm to table continuum.
The vital services of FSIS have touched the lives of almost every citizen, every day in America. FSIS is accountable for protecting the lives and wellbeing of 295 million U.S. citizens and millions more around the world.
[edit] See also
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
SELECTED USDA AGENCIES
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
National Agricultural Library (NAL)
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
Food Safety Information Center
STATE GOVERNMENT
State Departments of Public Health and Agriculture
PARTNERSHIPS
Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE)
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