The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced that suppliers to federal nutrition assistance programs now can choose between two services to comply with the specifications and technical requirements for production of certain cooked and canned meat and poultry products. Specifically, these suppliers can choose between the AMS grading and certification service or the AMS audit-based verification service to provide assurance to AMS that the production, processing, and product requirements for these commodities have been met. The option to choose between the grading-based or auditing-based compliance services has been introduced for the products listed below.
| Products | WBSCM Material Codes |
|---|---|---|
MEAT | Canned Beef, Pork, & Stew | 100127, 100138, 100139,100526, 111180 |
Cooked Beef Items (crumbles, patties, taco filling) | 100130, 100131, 100132, 100133, 100134, 110264, 110321, 110322, 110711 | |
Cooked Pork Items (crumbles, patties, pulled pork) | 100143, 100144, 100145, 100146, 100148, 100149, 100150, 110730 | |
Pork Ham (all types) | 100184, 100186, 100187, 100188, 100891 | |
POULTRY | Canned Poultry (all types) | 100877, 110477, 110940 |
Turkey Ham (all types) | 100126, 100886, 110911 | |
Turkey Deli-Style (all types) | 100121, 100122, 100884, 110554, 110903, 110904, 110910 |
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