AAMP, along with other industry groups and representatives from a working group of scientists, met with FSIS recently.

The American Association of Meat Processors, along with others in the industry, are making great progress in our work with FSIS to come up alternatives better suited to help small processors meet the regulatory requirements.

Although new tariffs and multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in North Carolina hog nuisance trials have garnered most of the agribusiness community’s attention over the past several months, there is another matter brewing in a St. Louis courtroom that may have substantial adverse consequences for the meat industry.

I want to update you on the progress of some of the regulatory matters that Nelson, AAMP's outreach specialist, and I have been working on. We just received the final version of the Foreign Materials Best Practices paper that has been a work in progress for a few years now.

One of the most controversial topics in the meat and poultry industry is the role that lab-grown meat and poultry products will play in the industry.

As most of you know the compliance to the revised Appendix A and B has been delayed until March of next year (2019).

This delay now gives us time to continue conversations with FSIS about the validity of the Revised Documents and hopefully get some changes made to it.

AAMP Executive Director Chris Young was in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, February 20th to meet with FSIS Acting administrator Paul Kiecker and members of his policy staff.