The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has filed a joint citizen petition with the American Meat Institute and the National Meat Association that in urges the USDA to ensure that all nonambulatory, or downer, cattle, are kept out of the human food supply.

NMPF jointly filed, with the American Meat Institute and the National Meat Association, a citizen petition that requests that the U.S. Department of Agriculture eliminate a regulation allowing a government veterinarian to reinspect animals that become nonambulatory after they initially pass ante-mortem inspection. In some cases, a