US meat inspectors will no longer publish which states inspect their own meat

The US Food Safety and Inspection Service will stop publishing a list of states that run their own meat and poultry inspection programs. Instead, this information will only be available on the agency's website. This means the official federal rulebook will no longer contain a public record of which states handle their own meat inspections.

For decades, the federal government published a clear list of states that ran their own meat inspection programs, which had to be "at least equal to" federal standards. This rule change removes that list from the official regulations. Now, the public will need to check a website for this information, which can be updated without public notice or formal rulemaking. This makes it harder to track changes in state inspection capabilities over time.