The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering a new rule regarding requirements on “Product of USA” labels in an effort to increase consumer understanding of what the claim actually means.
The proposed rule was announced on March 6 and would allow the voluntary label “Product of USA or “Made in the USA” claim to be used on meat, poultry, and egg products only when they are derived from animals born, raised, slaughtered, and processed in the United States.
Current rules for those labels allow them to be used for meat derived from animals that were born and raised in other countries and only processed in the United States. Farmers and ranchers throughout the country have argued that this left domestic producers at a disadvantage….