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Food Safety and Inspection Service

The mission of the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is to ensure that the Nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled and packaged. This mission is carried out by inspecting products and handling and processing facilities.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The Food Safety and Inspection Service has a clear program purpose and mission in addition to effectively collaborating with other Federal and State agencies to protect the food supply.
  • FSIS developed new methodologies to better estimate the population's exposure to the three pathogens: E.coli 0157:H7, Salmonella, and Listeria monocytogenes. However, only two years of data exist using the new volume-based methodology for those measures.
  • Budget requests are aligned with program goals and objectives in the Strategic Plan as well as the corporate measures designed to protect public health. However, it is unclear how changes in funding, legislation or policy will impact the Agency's ability to meet the targets.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Conducting independent assessments of Food Safety and Inspection Service programs to evaluate their scientific basis and effectiveness.
  • Developing a new information infrastructure to enable real-time data collection, data analysis, improve program effectiveness, and allow greater information sharing among external agencies.
  • Implementing effective multi-year budget planning to establish closer links between the Food Safety and Inspection Service budget and Food Safety and Inspection Service performance goals.

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