# Cooperative Inspection Programs: Interstate Shipment of Meat and Poultry Products
> **Food Safety and Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2011-05-02 · Effective 2011-07-01 · 76 FR 24714
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-9865
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Food Safety and Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 24714
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 321
- **Publication date:** 2011-05-02
- **Effective date:** 2011-07-01
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. FSIS-2008-0039
## Abstract

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Federal meat and poultry products inspection regulations to establish a new voluntary cooperative program under which State-inspected establishments with 25 or fewer employees will be eligible to ship meat and poultry products in interstate commerce. In participating States, State-inspected establishments selected to take part in this program will be required to comply with all Federal standards under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) and the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA). These establishments will receive inspection services from State inspection personnel that have been trained in the enforcement of the FMIA and PPIA. Meat and poultry products produced under the program that have been inspected and passed by designated State personnel will bear an official Federal mark of inspection and will be permitted to be distributed in interstate commerce. FSIS will provide oversight and enforcement of the program.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/05/02/2011-9865/cooperative-inspection-programs-interstate-shipment-of-meat-and-poultry-products)
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