United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service
Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications, Fresh Lamb and Mutton — Series 200
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- 2026-08-13
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Read in full. The lesson is worth as much as the content: BBQHQ concluded from a truncated download that the DOCUMENT was inaccessible, and recorded the byte count as though it were a property of the file. It was a property of one capture. The same reading recorded ams.usda.gov as returning 403 to automated requests, which also did not reproduce. A retrieval failure is evidence about a route until somebody has tried a second one. On content: item 1232A Loin Chops must contain no portion of the hipbone and is a 'T-bone' chop when the tenderloin is present; 1204B/1204C are Rib Chops, frenched in the C variant, which is what a British butcher sells as a cutlet; 1233E Leg Center-Cut Steaks must show a cross-section of the femur on both sides; 1234 Leg Chops Boneless carries the URMIS common name 'Leg Center Steak' and must exclude shank and heel meat.
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Terminology, Technical
- Explicitly not safety: A purchase specification is not a food-safety source.