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June 20, 2025
FSIS to Hold Small Plant Roundtable in South Dakota
FSIS is holding a Small Plant Roundtable on July 30, 2025. Participants can attend the round table in person, virtually or by phone. The details to RSVP and attend are below.
FSIS South Dakota Small Plant Roundtable
July 30, 2025, 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. CT
South Dakota University Student Union
1421 Student Union Ln Brookings, SD 57007
RSVP is requested but not required. RSVP using the South Dakota Roundtable Registration Link to let us know if you plan to attend in person or virtually.
Virtual attendees may join the event day-of using this Microsoft Teams link: FSIS 2025 South Dakota Roundtable.
During the roundtable, FSIS will provide information that is relevant to small and very small establishments. Establishment owners/operators can share their thoughts, concerns and suggestions directly with FSIS leadership from the Des Moines District Office and Washington, D.C. FSIS wants to hear from you, and we use feedback received from roundtables like this to make changes. Members of FSIS’ Office of Field Operations and Office of Policy and Program Development will be in attendance and USDA Agricultural Marketing Service will present virtually.
If you have questions about the roundtable, please contact FSIS Office of Field Operations at fotas@usda.gov.
Reminder: FSIS to Onboard Peru and Papua New Guinea in PHIS Export Component
As announced in the May 2, 2025, Constituent Update, Peru and Papua New Guinea will be onboarded into FSIS’ Public Health Information System (PHIS) export module on July 28, 2025. Industry users are encouraged to use the Industry Test Environment to test application submittals for export to Peru and Papua New Guinea prior to implementation.
As a reminder, to ease preparation and ensure a successful industry testing period, FSIS has provided industry users with testing instructions for export requirements unique to Peru. These instructions can be found on the Industry Testing Instructions: Peru PHIS Export webpage, or by navigating to the PHIS components page, under the heading “Export,” then “Information for Industry,” and subsequently under “Constituent Updates.” Industry users are encouraged to test for Papua New Guinea as well, noting that Papua New Guinea accepts the 9060-5 only and does not require additional statements.
Contact internationalcoordination@usda.gov with questions regarding these changes. Technical questions can be directed to PHISTechnicalQA@usda.gov.
FSIS Posted Individual Category Status and Aggregate Results for Poultry Carcasses, Chicken Parts, and Comminuted Poultry Tested for Salmonella
On June 20, 2025, FSIS updated the individual establishment Salmonella performance standard category information for raw poultry carcasses, raw chicken parts, and comminuted poultry products on the Salmonella Verification Testing Program Monthly Posting page on the FSIS Website. Additionally, FSIS will post the aggregate sampling results showing the number of establishments in categories 1, 2, or 3 for establishments producing young poultry carcasses, raw chicken parts, or not ready-to-eat comminuted poultry products at the location linked above.
FSIS Updated Import Presented Refused and Import Refusal Reason Datasets
Today, FSIS updated the Import Presented Refused and Import Refusal Reason datasets on the Import and Export Data page. The Import Presented Refused dataset includes lot-level information for import volume along with import refusal data at the lot-level. The Import Refusal Reason is provided as a secondary dataset, providing each refusal reason as its own row to facilitate analysis.
The Import Presented Refused and Import Refusal Reason datasets are updated monthly and posted the third Friday of each month, with data broken out by fiscal year (FY), starting with data from FY 2014 (starting on October 1, 2013) through the most recent FY. These datasets are released in an open, non-proprietary comma separated values (csv) format. Instructions on how to open csv files using Excel are available on the FSIS Sampling web page in the Comma Separated Values Guide section.
Upcoming Events
- July 30, 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. CT: FSIS South Dakota Small Plant Roundtable
Policy Update
FSIS notices and directives on public health and regulatory issues are available on the FSIS Policy webpage. The following policy update was recently issued:
FSIS Notice 13-25 - GovTA Implementation
FSIS Notice 14-25 - Reissued Public Health Information System New Poultry Inspection System Disposition Task and Questionnaire
FSIS Directive 13000.1 - Scheduling In-Plant Inspection Tasks in the Public Health Information System - Revision 2
Export Requirements Update
The Library of Export Requirements has been updated for products for the following:
- Canada
- Taiwan
- El Salvador
- Nicaragua
- Costa Rica
- China
- St. Lucia
- South Africa
- Colombia
- French Polynesia (Tahiti)
- Hong Kong
- Kiribati
- Namibia
- Benin
- Myanmar
- Uruguay
- European Union
- Cuba
- Peru
- Ecuador
- Curacao
- Tunisia
- Qatar
- Solomon Islands
- Jordan
Complete information can be found at the FSIS Import & Export Library.
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