View all text of Subchapter IV [§ 671 - § 680]
§ 679a. Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel
(a) Establishment
(b) Duties
(1) Review and evaluation
The panel shall review and evaluate, as the panel considers necessary, the adequacy, necessity, safety, cost-effectiveness, and scientific merit of—
(A) inspection procedures of, and work rules and worker relations involving Federal employees employed in, plants inspected under this chapter;
(B) informal petitions or proposals for changes in inspection procedures, processes, and techniques of plants inspected under this chapter;
(C) formal changes in meat inspection regulations promulgated under this chapter, whether in notice, proposed, or final form; and
(D) such other matters as may be referred to the panel by the Secretary regarding the quality or effectiveness of a safe and cost-effective meat inspection system under this chapter.
(2) Reports
(A) In general
(B) Reports on formal changes
(C) Publication in Federal Register
(c) Secretarial response
(d) Composition of panel
(e) Nominations
(1) Initial panel
(2) Vacancies
(3) Requirements for nominees
(A) In general
(B) Submission of information
(4) Additional nominees
(f) Travel expenses
(g) Conflicts of interest
(h) Exemption
(i) Funding
(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title IV, § 410, as added Pub. L. 104–127, title IX, § 918(a)(1)(B), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1188; amended Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(161), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4323.)