The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to add Korea to the list of countries eligible to export poultry products to the United States. According a Federal Register notice, reviews by FSIS of Korea’s laws, regulations, and inspection implementation show that its poultry inspection system requirements are equivalent to the Poultry Products
Inspection Act (PPIA) and its implementing regulations.
In 2005, the government of Korea requested approval to export poultry products to the United States. Korea is initially seeking to provide a niche market in the United States with two types of ginseng chicken products. All such products would be subject to re-inspection at U. S. ports-of-entry by FSIS inspectors.
The full report on Korea’s poultry inspection system (slaughter and processing) can be found on the FSIS Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/foreign_audit_reports/index.asp.
