Talmadge-Aiken plants are the approximately 250 meat and poultry plants in 10 states where USDA has contracted with state agency inspectors to conduct federal inspection activities. They are now formally known as Federal-State Cooperative Inspection Plants. Even though state employees conduct the inspections in these plants, they are considered to be under the federal rather than state inspection.
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