date:Mar 11, 2013
o specify the production steps of birth, raising, and slaughter of the animal from which the meat is derived that took place in each country listed on the origin designation, AMS said.
In addition, this proposed rule would eliminate the allowances for any commingling of muscle cut covered commodities of different origins, the agency statement continued.
AMS began working on the rule change after the U.S. partially lost a WTO appeal in 2012 to rulings in challenges brought by Canada and Mexico.