State meat & poultry inspection lookup — all 30 state programs
Pick the state on your label, then enter the state establishment number from the state mark of inspection — or a plant name. FAT holds state plant lists for 16 states (1,070+ plants); every search also checks the federal FSIS record and always gives you the state licensing agency.
No number on the package at all? It may be retail-exempt (grocery butcher counter, in-store meat room — 9 CFR 303.1(d)/381.10(d)) or custom-exempt (“NOT FOR SALE”) — neither carries an inspection legend. Florida, and the other 19 states plus DC without a state program, have no state-inspected plants — every commercial plant there is federal. Sources: FSIS SFCIP state list (Aug 19, 2026); state agency plant directories (harvested Aug 2026); USDA/FSIS establishment directory mirrored by FAT. · Federal Meat Processor Lookup →
Enforcement records for state-inspected plants — mostly not published; you generally have to request them
For federally inspected plants, enforcement is public and queryable — recalls, suspensions, and quarterly enforcement reports (see FAT’s Inspection Results). For state-inspected plants, most of the 29 states publish no plant-level enforcement dashboard. Inspection reports, noncompliance records, and enforcement actions exist — but you must request them from the state licensing agency under that state’s public-records (FOIA-equivalent) law: Montana’s constitutional right-to-know, the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, the Iowa Open Records Act (ch. 22), the Mississippi Public Records Act (§ 25-61), the South Dakota Sunshine Law (SDCL ch. 1-27), and each other state’s equivalent statute.
Texas is the exception — DSHS publishes a Compliance Actions — Meat Safety page and a formal open-records intake for its meat program.
The federal window on each state’s overall program performance is FSIS’s annual “at least equal to” review, posted on the FSIS state-programs page. More on the state enforcement transparency gap: State Rules on Meat Processing.
Corrected August 23, 2026 against the FSIS State-Federal Cooperative Inspection Program list (updated Aug 19, 2026): there are 30 state programs, not 29. Maine (MMPI, since 2003) and Nevada (newest — USDA-approved November 2025) run state programs; Florida does not (it surrendered its programs December 2, 1997 — all Florida commercial plants are federal). FAT holds state plant lists for 16 of the 30 programs (1,070+ plants, harvested from state agency directories August 2026): Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, and South Dakota publish no establishment numbers, so search those by plant name. Georgia publishes only a scanned (non-searchable) PDF directory. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming publish no bulk plant list at all — the lookup routes you to the agency. Nevada has not yet licensed its first plants. For federal EST. numbers and national brands, use the Meat Processor Lookup. For how the inspection pathways and the retail/custom exemptions work, see State Rules on Meat Processing. Prepared by Dirk Adams with the assistance of AI.