date:Feb 25, 2014
The United States and Canada have agreed to adopt common standards for naming meat cuts in an effort to facilitate trade, the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service reported.
Both countries will adopt the US Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications (IMPS) as the standard terminology for meat cut names starting Feb. 24. IMPS is a set of voluntary standards maintained by AMS. The full list of applicable meat cut names is listed in the IMPS. The agreement only applies to w