date:Nov 01, 2012
ge of 9.8 countries per year.
The number of foreign countries audited started to decline significantly in 2009, to only 21 audits, but the in-country inspections that year still covered many of the major meat importers, including Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico.
In 2010, FSIS only audited 6 countries Brazil, China, Honduras, Korea, Spain, and Uruguay a third of what the agency had done the year before.
By 2011, the number of countries audited by FSIS was down to just 3: Australia, New