In the February 23, 2015, Federal Register, USDA's FSIS released to the public its new Web-Based Self-Reporting Tool ("SRT") that it will send to foreign countries to report information on their food regulatory systems. The purpose of the SRT is to establish that the foreign food regulatory systems are equivalent to those of the United States. FSIS will send SRTs to all countries currently eligible to export meat, poultry, and egg products to the United States on December 1 of each year going forward.
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