USDA Yawns: Same Old Registration Renewal, No Surprises
Published Date: 2/18/2025
Notice
Summary
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service wants to keep collecting business registration info with no changes. This affects businesses that need to register with FSIS, and the current approval expires June 30, 2025. If you have thoughts, send comments by April 21, 2025—no extra costs or new rules, just a smooth renewal!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Continued FSIS Business Registration Rules
If you are a meat or poultry handler (for example, a broker, renderer, animal food manufacturer, wholesaler, public warehouseman, or a firm handling dead, diseased, disabled, or dying animals), you must continue to submit FSIS Form 5020-1 with your name, all business location addresses, and trade names. You must register within 90 days after beginning a business that requires registration and notify FSIS in writing when information on the form changes. FSIS estimates 1,200 respondents, 1 annual response per respondent, and a total annual burden of 300 hours; the agency says there are no changes to the information collection and its approval expires on June 30, 2025 (comments due April 21, 2025).
Exemption for Official Establishments
If your establishment receives mandatory FSIS inspection of slaughtering or processing operations, you are not required to register with FSIS (see 9 CFR 320.5(c) and 381.179(c)). This means those inspected establishments do not need to submit FSIS Form 5020-1 for registration.
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