Agencies - Food Safety and Inspection Service (2024)

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Which two agencies are responsible in the U.S. for food inspection? ›

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serve important roles in ensuring food safety in the United States.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service

FSIS protects the public's health by preventing illness from meat, poultry, and egg products. We do this by ensuring these products are safe, wholesome, and properly labeled.

"The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged."

FDA has jurisdiction over domestic and imported foods that are marketed in interstate commerce, except for meat and poultry products. FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) seeks to ensure that these foods are safe, sanitary, nutritious, wholesome, and honestly and adequately labeled.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

The FDA is charged with protecting consumers against impure, unsafe, and fraudulently labeled products. FDA, through its Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), regulates foods other than the meat, poultry, and egg products regulated by FSIS.

The USDA regulates the production of meat, poultry and egg products. USDA-regulated businesses are required to have a USDA inspector onsite at all times. The FDA regulates the production of everything else (non-meat foods, unusual meats, and fish products). No inspector is required onsite during production.

USDA is responsible for regulating meat and poultry, processed egg products, and catfish, whereas the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees food safety for fresh eggs and almost all other foods.

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.

Foods that are used in a restaurant or food service operation within the U.S. are regulated by the FDA. In general, the FDA has authority over restaurants and regulates food establishments, including: Food service businesses (e.g., restaurants and retail food stores) Vending machine operations.

What agency is responsible for inspecting meat poultry? ›

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture inspects and regulates meat and poultry products. FSIS is responsible for ensuring that these products are safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled.

In 1995, FSIS became responsible for the inspection of egg products. FSIS inspects all egg products, with and without added ingredients, with the exception of those products exempted under the Act. Officially inspected egg products will bear the USDA inspection mark.

United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) share federal regulatory responsibility for egg safety, with the regulation of shell eggs primarily the responsibility of FDA.

FDA works closely with other federal agencies that have some role in the regulation of meat, poultry, and processed egg products along the farm-to-table continuum. FSIS is a large, independent agency that functions separately from the FDA and participates in business oversight.

Final answer: The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) is the organization responsible for food inspection.

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC);

To prevent outbreaks from contaminated food, the L.A. County Department of Public Health aims to inspect “high-risk” food facilities — typically those with full-service kitchens handling raw meat — three times a year, according to department procedures reviewed by The Times.

Federal responsibility for food safety rests primarily with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Foods are labeled based on rules of the FDA and USDA. The FDA sets the rules for almost all the foods we eat. The USDA sets the rules for meat products, poultry products, and egg products. All foods labeled gluten-free are fine for you to eat.