The Food Safety and Inspection Service is responsible for ensuring that meat, poultry, Siluriformes, and eggs are safe and are properly labeled and packaged. Learn more about our inspection services and process.

If you have a problem with a food product, let FSIS know or find the appropriate public health organization. Report Problem We all have an active role in preventing foodborne illness and protecting public health.

FSIS protects public health by preventing illness from meat, poultry, and egg products. We do this by ensuring these products are safe, wholesome and properly labeled. FSIS is part of a national science-based system to ensure food safety and food defense.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2025 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert due to concerns of frozen, raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically hard plastic and metal.

FSIS aims to reduce risk by engaging all stakeholders with the shared goal of food safety. FSIS ensures that its rules and regulations are transparent and science based, providing opportunities for the food safety community to participate in the rule-making process.

Thousands of FSIS inspectors across the U.S. conduct daily inspection activities, verifying domestic industry compliance with applicable food safety regulatory requirements. FSIS' food safety mission extends to ensuring the safety and integrity of FSIS-regulated products exported to more than 140 countries, as well as imported food products.

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Aug 16, 2020 · Under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, FSIS is responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, wholly or in part, from the carcass or parts of any cattle, sheep, swine, and goat, is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2024 – Wolverine Packing Co., a Detroit, Mich. establishment, is recalling approximately 167,277 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

Dec 17, 2024 · This notice announces mandatory FSIS Review of Ready-to-Eat Inspection Fundamentals training for all Consumer Safety Inspectors (CSIs). TRAINING AVAILABILITY AND COMPLETION All CSIs will be pre-enrolled in the mandatory training.