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Committee approves HR 18 urging federal change to let small slaughterhouses sell individual cuts
Summary
The committee voted unanimously to approve House Resolution 18, asking New Hampshire’s congressional delegation and USDA to allow small and very small slaughter plants to use federal custom-exempt inspection with a third-party inspector so individual cuts can be sold directly by producers to consumers.
The House Environment & Agriculture Committee approved House Resolution 18, urging New Hampshire’s congressional delegation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to adopt regulations allowing small-scale and very small slaughter plants to use the federal Meat Inspection Act’s custom-exempt processing criteria with a third-party inspector present during slaughter so that beef, pork, lamb and goat meat may be sold as individual cuts directly from farm producer to…
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