Food Safety: Procedures for Inspecting Canadian Meat Imports

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the U.S. system for inspecting Canadian meat imports, focusing on the: (1) Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) system for selecting and inspecting imported meat products; (2) availability of equipment at import inspection facilities along the Canadian border that would enable the full inspection of meat shipped in trucks; and (3) effectiveness of FSIS' new procedure to verify that carcass samples selected by Canadian inspectors are representative of the entire shipment.