...regulation, regulation, regulation. ...
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Not real familiar with the regulations, but wasn’t there something about Federal Inspectors for those small butchers, so they can ship to a wider customer base?
The USDA Emergency meat plan seems to not be working:
Emergency Response planning helps manage incidents reports (IRs) during a natural or manmade disaster. A natural disaster includes wildfires, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or earthquakes. Manmade disasters present a grave, or potentially grave threat to public health and to the safety of FSIS-regulated products, or FSIS personnel (i.e. robbery, bomb threat, chemical spill, fire, unintentional product contamination, human pandemic, illness, injury or intentional product tampering). The SIPRS staff communicates the threat that has the potential to affect the food or agriculture sector and assists the FSIS personnel with preparing an IR so the information can be shared appropriately across the agency.
Continuity of Operations (COOP)
The Significant Incident Preparedness and Response Staff (SIPRS) is entrusted with Continuity of Operations (COOP) as required by Presidential directive. SIPRS serves as the Agency’s focal point for (COOP) Planning, Training and Exercises to ensure FSIS can perform mission critical essential functions during a wide range of emergency situations. SIPRS collaborates with the USDA Office of Homeland Security and various other agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to mitigate risks and safeguard FSIS personnel, customers, assets, and information during a continuity situation.