{"id":657146,"date":"2025-12-27T04:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T04:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:21:35","slug":"fsis-updates-product-of-usa-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657146\/","title":{"rendered":"FSIS updates \u2018Product of USA\u2019 guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USDA just tightened up what \u201cProduct of USA\u201d can actually mean, and that\u2019s a win for clarity.<\/p>\n<p><a\/>Ahead of January\u2019s rollout of the new voluntary rules, FSIS updated its guidance to spell out key definitions, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cRaised\u201d now means from birth to slaughter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Multi-country labels like \u201cProduct of USA and Canada\u201d have defined guardrails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cProduct of North America\u201d is still allowed if it\u2019s truthful and follows FSIS rules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The big takeaway: \u201cProduct of USA\u201d or \u201cMade in USA\u201d can only be used (voluntarily) for meat, poultry, and egg products when the animals are born, raised, slaughtered, and processed in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>USCA was at the forefront of pushing for a real, common-sense definition, so consumers aren\u2019t left guessing and U.S. producers aren\u2019t competing with fuzzy labels.<\/p>\n<p>If you care about transparency at the meat case, this is one to watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013U.S. Cattlemen\u2019s Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USDA just tightened up what \u201cProduct of USA\u201d can actually mean, and that\u2019s a win for clarity. Ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-657146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115789619729603144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}