Check My Beef Reads the USDA Trail on Your Package

Field notes

The tool starts with the small USDA inspection mark on a package: users can photograph it, inspect the extracted text, correct OCR errors, and search by the resulting EST. number. Its records layer combines imported beef shipments presented or refused at U.S. ports since FY2025 with live FSIS recalls and a domestic-plant directory. The page also explains that refusal records group chemical-residue findings with other laboratory failures, so they cannot establish a shipment-specific chloramphenicol result.