1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov March 12, 2015Chicken Imports from ChinaIn August 2013, the U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDAs) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) granted equivalency to Chinas poultry processing system. This determination allows China to export processed (cooked) poultry
2、meat to the United States. Imports from China must be sourced from U.S.-slaughtered poultry or from other countries allowed to export raw poultry to the United States (Canada, Chile, and France, as of March 2015). USDAs action in August 2013 was the culmination of the equivalency determination proce
3、ss that began a decade earlier. The possibility that the United States could import poultry meat processed in China has raised concerns about lax food safety enforcement in China. Testimony presented at a June 2014 hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China highlighted examples of Ch
4、inas weak track record on food safety. The discovery in the summer of 2014 that a Chinese meat processor that supplied products to McDonalds, KFC, and other foreign food establishments in China used unsanitary and expired meat in products provided to the food establishments may have furthered height
