HR18

Urges the New Hampshire congressional delegation to sponsor legislation and urges the USDA to adopt regulations allowing small-scale slaughter plants to use custom exempt inspection criteria so farm-processed meat can be sold directly to consumers.

(New Title) urging the New Hampshire congressional delegation to sponsor legislation relative to, and urging the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to adopt regulations, allowing for small scale and very small slaughter plants to use the Federal Meat Inspection Act’s Custom Exempt meat processing inspection criteria with a third-party inspector present at slaughter, so that processed beef, pork, lamb, and chevron (goat meat) can be sold as individual cuts directly from the farm producer to the end consumer.