Since Executive Order 13777 Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda was signed in 2017, Regulatory Reform Task Forces have evaluated and proposed changes to existing regulations to repeal, replace and modify cumbersome requirements. Several labeling requirements for meat and poultry products are under review.
Last spring, USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Administrator Carmen Rottenberg said at the North American Meat Institute’s 2019 Meat Industry Summit that a small Texas producer had written to the agency asking about dual-labeling regulations. He wanted to know why products weighing more than 1 pound are required to be labeled in pounds and ounces.