REGULATION GOVERNING INSPECTION OF IMPORTED POULTRY.

SEC. 2507. REGULATION GOVERNING INSPECTION OF IMPORTED POULTRY. (a) Findings.— Congress finds that— (1) in 1985 the Poultry Products Inspection Act, an Act to maintain the integrity and wholesomeness of this Nation’s food supply, was amended by the Food Security Act of 1985; (2) the 1985 amendment provided that poultry products offered for importation into the United States shall be subject to the same inspection, sanitary, quality, species verification, and residue standards applied to products produced in the United States and that such products shall have been processed in facilities and under conditions that are the same as those under which similar products are processed in the United States; and 104 STAT. 4069 (3) on October 30, 1989, the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the agency in the Department of Agriculture charged with the responsibility of administering the provisions of the Poultry Products Inspection Act, promulgated a regulation implementing the 1985 amendment to that Act providing that a foreign inspection system seeking certification for export of poultry to the United States merely impose requirements at least equal to those applicable in the United States. (b) Sense of Congress.— It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Food Safety and Inspection Service, with respect to poultry products offered for importation into the United States does not reflect the intention of the Congress; and (2) to urge the Secretary, through the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture, to repeal the October 30, 1989, regulation and promulgate a new regulation reflecting the intention of the Congress.