Ensuring the Safety of Imported Meat and Poultry Act of 1999 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to ban (with a discretionary one-time extension) all imports of meat or meat products from any country whose inspection system does not provide sanitary or phytosanitary protection equivalent to United States requirements.
Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to provide similar provisions for poultry or poultry products.
Provides for: (1) public participation in equivalency decisions; and (2) public disclosure of noncomplying foreign exporting plants and foreign country rejection rates.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
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