POLICY# MI-001B: Retail Exempt Prepared Specially Processed Meat and Poultry: Smoked, Cured and Uncured Products, Refining of Livestock Fats, Drying, and Pickling
For Use Beginning 01/01/2025
The Agency has decided to no longer enforce the current Code of Vermont Regulations, which prohibit curing, smoking, drying, and refining of livestock fats as retail exempt activities. Therefore, the Agency is rescinding Policy MI-001: Specially Processed Meat and Poultry. Instead, the Agency will allow these products to be prepared under 9 CFR 303.1(d)(2)(i) which recognizes curing, smoking, drying, and refining of livestock fats as retail exempt activities. 6 VSA 3305(8) adopts the federal meat inspection regulations and federal poultry inspection regulations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 3, 9 C.F.R. §§ 300.1 et seq., together with any amendments, supplements, or revisions to the regulations
The Agency has decided to no longer enforce the current Code of Vermont Regulations, which prohibit curing, smoking, drying, and refining of livestock fats as retail exempt activities. Therefore, the Agency is rescinding Policy MI-001: Specially Processed Meat and Poultry. Instead, the Agency will allow these products to be prepared under 9 CFR 303.1(d)(2)(i) which recognizes curing, smoking, drying, and refining of livestock fats as retail exempt activities. 6 VSA 3305(8) adopts the federal meat inspection regulations and federal poultry inspection regulations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 3, 9 C.F.R. §§ 300.1 et seq., together with any amendments, supplements, or revisions to the regulations