WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Agricultural Marketing Service has issued a notice called: United States Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on July 8 by Melissa Bailey, Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking public comments concerning revisions to the United States Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef. This request for comments stems from an American Wagyu Association petition, which requested that AMS consider adding marbling degrees to the USDA Prime grade for beef to better characterize modern genetics, which are not always differentiated within the current marbling degrees. AM...