Country-Of-Origin Labeling: Opportunities for USDA and Industry to Implement Challenging Aspects of the New Law

United States. General Accounting Office.

United States. General Accounting Office.

关键词: Government accountability -- United States.;    international affairs;    agriculture and food;    country-of-origin labeling;    letter report;   

RP-ID  :  GAO-03-780
RP-ID  :  239262

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A provision in the 2002 Farm Bill requires grocery stores to identify certain commodities--beef, pork and lamb, fish and shellfish, fruits and vegetables, and peanuts--by country of origin. This provision also requires that an initial voluntary program be followed by a mandatory program by September 30, 2004. GAO was asked to identify existing programs that might be useful to USDA in crafting the new program, to update a 1998 USDA survey of major U.S. trading partners' country-of-origin labeling practices, and to assess the reasonableness of the assumptions and methodology USDA used for estimating first year record-keeping costs."