Oregon Secures $9 Million to Support and Expand Capacity of State Meat Inspection Program
Following the entry of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) for a state meat inspection program in July 2022, the Oregon Department of Agriculture been allocated $9 million in state funding to support the state meat inspection program.
Under the cooperative agreement, state inspection programs must develop, administer, and enforce requirements that are “at least equal to” those imposed under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). FSIS provides guidance to state MPI programs under cooperative agreements, reviews each state MPI program annually at minimum, and provides approximately $60 million dollars each year to support the state MPI programs that are currently operating.