WASHINGTON—Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and six other senators sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack requesting that he revise pending country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rules, reported Meatingplace.
The seven senators have specific concerns with the provisions in the final COOL regulations that would allow meatpackers to use the multiple country label for muscle cuts from cattle born, raised and slaughtered in the United States processed by a facility on the same day as foreign products, and a provision that allows the multiple country label on ground meat as long as the facility had processed some U.S. meat in the facility within the past 60 days.