Agriculture & Food

FSIS Laboratory Accreditation and Exemption Information Collection Renewal

🇺🇸United States··Notice·Low Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

FSIS plans to renew an existing paperwork approval for laboratory accreditation, certain transactions involving meat, poultry, and egg product facilities, and exemptions under federal meat and poultry inspection laws. The agency says it is not changing the current information collection. Accredited laboratories, official meat and poultry establishments, egg product processing plants, and related firms may continue to face the same reporting or recordkeeping requirements. Comments are due by July 21, 2026, before the current approval expires on October 31, 2026.

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Key Changes

  • FSIS intends to renew an existing OMB-approved information collection.
  • The renewal covers laboratory accreditation, transactions with regulated meat, poultry, and egg product facilities, and exemptions from inspection requirements.
  • FSIS says there are no changes to the current information collection.

Obligations

What this law requires

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Interested persons submitting comments on the notice must submit them by July 21, 2026.

interested persons submitting comments to FSIS
Submit comments on or before July 21, 2026
reporting
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Comments submitted by mail or electronic submission must include the agency name and docket number FSIS-2026-0100.

interested persons submitting comments to FSIS
By the time comments are submitted; comments are due July 21, 2026
reporting

Affected Parties

Accredited laboratoriesMeat and poultry establishments+2 more…

Tags

FSIS,laboratory accreditation,meat and poultry inspection