Wholesome Meat Act

Wholesome Meat Act
Long title	An Act to clarify and otherwise amend the Meat Inspection Act, to provide for cooperation with appropriate State agencies with respect to State meat inspection programs, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	WMA
Nicknames	Wholesome Meat Act of 1967
Enacted by	the 90th United States Congress
Effective	December 15, 1967
Citations
Public law	90-201
Statutes at Large	81 Stat. 584
Codification
Acts amended	Federal Meat Inspection Act
Titles amended	21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs
U.S.C. sections amended	21 U.S.C. ch. 12 § 601 et seq.
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 12144 by Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D–TX); Committee consideration by House Agriculture, Senate Agriculture and Forestry; Passed the House on October 31, 1967 (402-1); Passed the Senate on November 28, 1967 (89-2); Reported by the joint conference committee on November 29, 1967; agreed to by the House on December 6, 1967 (336-28) and by the Senate on December 6, 1967 (Agreed); Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 15, 1967;

The Wholesome Meat Act (also called "Equal To" law) is a United States federal law passed by the 90th United States Congressional session and enacted into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 15, 1967,^[1] amending the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 which established a statute for federal meat inspection programs.^[2] It requires that states have inspection programs "equal to" that of the federal government which are administered by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).^{[citation needed]}

^ Gerhard Peters; John T. Woolley. "Lyndon B. Johnson: "Remarks Upon Signing Bill Amending the Meat Inspection Act.," December 15, 1967". The American. University of California - Santa Barbara. Archived from the original on November 9, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
^ Board, Institute of Medicine (US) Food and Nutrition (1990). INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL REVIEW OF MEAT INSPECTION. National Academies Press (US).