The USDA Quality System Verification Program (QSVP) provides companies that supply agricultural products and services the opportunity to assure customers of their ability to provide consistent quality products or services.
The Never Fed Beta Agonists marketing claim is available to companies that produce livestock and beef and pork products and submit marketing programs to the Livestock, Poultry and Seed (LPS) Program for verification and monitoring. Companies have the option to meet the requirements of the Never Fed Beta Agonists marketing claim under either a USDA Process Verified Program (PVP) or the USDA Quality System Assessment (QSA) Program. The requirements for these programs are defined in the USDA Process Verified Program GVD 1001 Procedure, USDA Process Verified Program and the USDA Quality System Assessment Program GVD 1002 USDA Quality System Assessment Program. The USDA QSVP ensures that the Never Fed Beta Agonists program requirements are supported by a documented quality management system.
To operate an approved Never Fed Beta Agonists marketing program, a company must submit a documented program that meets the program requirements outlined in GVD 1007 Procedure (PDF), as well as either the GVD 1002 Procedure (PDF) for QSA applicants, or the GVD 1001(PDF) for PVP applicants.
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