Food Safety and Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture Washington, D.C. 20250-3700

Updated: April 14, 2004

Communications to Congress

Testimony | Special Reports | Annual and Periodic Reports

Testimony

Special Reports

• Consumer Safety Officers

  • Report on Consumer Safety Officers to the United States House and Senate Appropriations Committees (February 15, 2000)
    • Transmittal Letter

• Country of Origin Labeling

  • Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Imported Fresh Muscle Cuts of Beef and Lamb (January 2000)

• Handling or Inspection of Nonambulatory Animals

  • Current Food Safety and Inspection Service Laws and Policies Regarding The Handling or Inspection of Nonambulatory Animals (May 2001)
    • Transmittal Letter

• Humane Handling and Slaughter Enforcement Activities

  • Humane Handling and Slaughter Enforcement Activities - Report to Congress, March 2003
  • 2002 Report
    • Transmittal Letter, March 15, 2002
    • PDF (best for printing)
      • Report and Attachments 1 - 4 (March 2002) [399 KB, 28 pages]
      • Attachment 5: United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service:
        Animal Welfare Report, Fiscal Year 2000, Report of the Secretary of Agriculture to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, APHIS 41–35–071 [17 MB, 41 pages - leaving this site]
      • Attachment 6: Federal Register: December 7, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 236)
        Commercial Transportation of Equines to Slaughter; Final Rule (221 KB, 80 pages)
    • HTML (Text) [includes links to all attachments. Note: Attachment 5 is only available as PDF.]

• Import Equivalence and Reinspection Processes

  • Report (March 2004, PDF Only) and Attachments:
    • List of Equivalent Countries (PDF)
    • Example of Equivalence Audit Cover Letter and Questionnaires (PDF)
    • Example of Audit Checklists for Initial Equivalence (PDF)
    • Example of Proposed Rule (PDF)
    • Example of Decision Memorandum (PDF)
    • Reinspection Data from FY 1999-2003 (PDF)

• Interstate Shipment of State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Products

  • Feasibility & Design of an Interstate Shipment Pilot for Ohio (March 2002)
  • Draft Bill: Transmittal Letter (November 2, 1999)
    • Federal Meat and Poultry State Inspection Act of 1999
    • Statement of Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman on Senate Introduction of The New Markets for State-Inspected Meat Act (November 19, 1999 )
  • Senate Bill 1988, introduced as the New Markets for State-Inspected Meat Act of 1999
    • PDF version of S.1988*

• Ratites

  • Public Health Benefits Assessment of Mandatory Ratite Inspection (June 4, 1999)
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Voluntary versus Mandatory Federal Inspection of Ratite Meats (July 1998)

• Recalls

  • Report on Meat and Poultry Recalls to the United States House and Senate Appropriations Committees (January 30, 2000)
    • Transmittal Letter
    • Executive Summary
    • For copies of the full report, contact the Congressional and Public Affairs Staff (numbers listed at the at the bottom of this page).
  • Improving Recalls at the Food Safety and Inspection Service: Report of the Recall Policy Working Group [also available in PDF, 66 pp. KB] (Posted August 10, 1998)

• Risk-Based Inspection

  • Report on Risk-Based Inspection to the United States House and Senate Appropriations Committees (March 2, 2001)
    • Transmittal Letter

Annual and Periodic Reports

• Meat and Poultry Inspection: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture to the U.S. Congress

  • 2000 (Issued February 2003) [PDF, 93 pp. 768 KB]
  • 1999 (Issued March 2001)
  • 1998 (Issued June 2000; HTML text with PDF attachments)
  • 1997 (Issued November 1999; PDF, 950 KB)
  • 1996 (Issued September 1997; PDF, 257 KB)

• FoodNet Reports

  • 1998 Report to Congress: FoodNet: An Active Surveillance System for Bacterial Foodborne Diseases in the United States (Issued March 1999)
  • 1997 Report to Congress: FoodNet: An Active Surveillance System for Bacterial Foodborne Diseases in the United States (Issued April 1998)
  • 1996 Report to Congress: FSIS/CDC/FDA Sentinel Site Study: The Establishment and Implementation of an Active Surveillance System for Bacterial Foodborne Diseases in the United States (Issued February 1997)

• Updates: Budget Execution, Staffing Levels and Staffing Needs

  • FY 2001 -- First Quarter, Second Quarter, Third Quarter, Fourth Quarter
  • FY 2000 -- First Quarter, Second Quarter, Third Quarter, Fourth Quarter

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For Further Information Contact:
FSIS Congressional and Public Affairs Staff
Phone: (202) 720-3897
Fax: (202) 720-5704

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