Follow US Immigration and US Life: On a global scale, food safety has become a worldwide challenge. Even in developed countries in Europe and America, food safety incidents occur from time to time. However, these countries have established relatively complete "farm-to-table" food safety assurance systems.
Since US President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act, the US food safety regulatory system has undergone a major transformation. This reform by the Obama administration was an adjustment to the US food safety system based on constantly changing realities.
In terms of food quality and safety supervision, the federal government does not rely on state governments. They have established multiple inspection centers or laboratories across the United States and have dispatched a large number of investigators to all parts of the country. However, on some specific issues, the federal government has signed agreements with some state governments, authorizing local inspection agencies to inspect food according to federal government methods, with the federal government covering the costs.
Hu Jijun, from the Beijing representative office of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, stated that the United States is currently the world's largest producer and consumer of poultry and egg products. As poultry is the primary meat consumed in the daily lives of US residents, its quality and safety have always been valued by the government, scientific research institutions, food processors, and even the media and consumers. To ensure the safety of poultry food, the US government has established a relatively perfect national food quality and safety supervision and management system, thereby ensuring strong government regulation and allowing citizens to enjoy a safe and hygienic supply of poultry food.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the competent authority responsible for regulating the safety of poultry food. Its requirements for food safety permeate every link from farm to table, and it has the world's strictest inspection standards for every step of poultry processing. The US federal government agencies responsible for food safety work are the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) under the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Among them, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is responsible for the edible safety and hygiene of meat, poultry, eggs, and their products, while the FDA is responsible for food safety and hygiene outside the scope of the FSIS.
All poultry products produced in the United States undergo strict inspection by the FSIS to ensure that US poultry sold domestically and in the world market is absolutely safe and hygienic. Currently, the FSIS adopts three measures to ensure food safety and hygiene: first, pre-slaughter and post-slaughter sanitary inspections implemented by veterinarians stationed at slaughterhouses; second, a pathogen control system; and third, the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system. The United States has integrated these three food safety assurance measures to ensure that consumers can enjoy safe, healthy, and high-quality US poultry products. Currently, the United States is the only country in the world whose poultry production and food safety assurance system (HACCP system) is fully recognized by the Chinese government.
