USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the state of Montana have finalized a Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) agreement, which provides an opportunity for selected state-inspected meat and poultry processors to ship their products across state lines.
“This announcement is part of USDA’s commitment to build more and better markets, a more resilient supply chain and better food system, and increase competition in agricultural markets across America,” said Sandra Eskin, USDA deputy undersecretary for food safety.
Montana becomes the 10th state to allow selected state-inspected establishments that comply with federal inspection requirements to ship their products in interstate commerce.
To participate in the CIS program, state meat and poultry inspectors must meet several criteria to demonstrate that the inspection of state-inspected plants will be the “same as” the inspection that FSIS provides to official federal establishments.
