The first international audit reports for 2023 are favourable for meat exporters from Israel and Japan to the United States.
The first international audit reports for 2023 are favourable for meat exporters from Israel and Japan to the United States.
Israel and Japan's Foreign Audit Reports from the USDA were made public over the last week. Fieldwork on the raw intact beef products of Japan's food safety systems were place between July 19 and August 17, 2022. For processed poultry products, Israel's food safety systems were examined from June 27 to July 19, 2022.
The final reports were presented to the Japanese and Israeli governments on January 3, 2023 and January 5, 2023, respectively.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) Office of International Coordination conducts the foreign audits for the USDA. The FSIS focuses on six system equivalency elements when performing overseas audits:
(1) Supervision by the government (e.g., planning and management);
(2) Government Statutory Authority, Food Safety, and Other Consumer Protection Regulations (such as Product Standards and Labeling, and Inspection System Operation);
(3) Public sanitation;
(4) The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System used by the government;
(5) Governmental Programs for Testing Chemical Residues; and
(6) Public microbiological testing initiatives.
The audit of Japan was done online. Israel's audit involved onsite verification.
The (onsite) audit's goal was to determine whether Israel's food safety system for processed poultry products is still comparable to that of the United States and allows for the export of goods that are secure, healthy, pure, and appropriately labelled and packaged. According to the report, Israel presently exports fully cooked, ready-to-eat (RTE), non-shelf-stable poultry items to the United States.
To ensure compliance with US regulatory standards, thorough audits of foreign nation inspection systems are conducted:
Act on Federal Meat Inspection
Inspection of Poultry Products Act
Act on Inspection of Egg Products
Act on Humane Livestock Slaughter
The goal of the Japanese audit was to ascertain whether Japan's raw intact beef product food safety inspection system still equates to that of the United States, allowing for the export of goods that are secure, healthy, pure, and suitably labelled and packaged. The United States now imports raw, whole beef products from Japan.
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