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A Huge Undertaking with Tremendous Benefit - USDA’s Integral Role in the National Beef Quality Audit

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By USDA shields, USDA Choice, USDA Prime, USDA Select
| blogs.usda.gov
About once every five years since 1991, the National Beef Quality Audit (NBQA) brings together producers, consumers, academia, and government in a collaborative research and data collection exercise that spans the entire U.S. beef industry. Funded by the Cattlemen’s Beef Board (the beef checkoff program), the NBQA assesses the current status of the industry regarding production processes and practices that ultimately affect consumer demand for beef.
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Expertise + Training + Commitment = A Day in the Life of a USDA Process Verified Program Auditor

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By USDA shields
| blogs.usda.gov
As an auditor for USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), I am one of a small group of highly-qualified individuals from across the country who audits companies that use our programs and services to add value to their products in the market place. One of these programs is the USDA Process Verified Program, or USDA PVP for short. For a PVP audit, I do a significant amount of preparation before I’m even on-site, pouring over the Quality Manual the company prepared as part of their application.
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USDA Process Verified Program: Transparency from Farm to Market

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By USDA shields
| blogs.usda.gov
Product labeling is a contract of trust between consumers and producers. This is especially true for the foods we eat and the companies that sell them. The responsibility of regulating and monitoring food labels is shared between many federal agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and USDA, and we recognize that there must be transparency and accountability before there can be public trust and understanding of product labels.
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