

FSIS Policy Book: The Label Is No Longer Just a Label
What the Updated FSIS Policy Book Signals About the Future of Meat and Poultry Labeling For years, many meat and poultry processors quietly relied on the USDA FSIS Food Standards and Labeling Policy Book as an operational reference point. It sat somewhere between guidance document, institutional memory, and field interpretation manual. Inspectors referenced it. Consultants referenced it. Label developers referenced it. Small processors often treated it as the closest thing to















