S. 3099 — DIRECT Act of 2025

This section authorizes retail stores, restaurants, or similar retail-type establishments to sell state-inspected meat or meat food products over the internet and ship them in interstate commerce (other than for export) directly to household consumers in normal retail quantities. (As background, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, state inspection programs with standards equal to federal requirements generally apply only to meat distributed solely within the state; this provision creates an exception for such direct-to-consumer online sales and shipments.)

This section authorizes retail stores, restaurants, or similar retail-type establishments to sell state-inspected poultry products over the internet and ship them in interstate commerce (other than for export) directly to household consumers in normal retail quantities. (Thus, state-inspected poultry, which under current law is restricted to intrastate distribution, may enter interstate commerce under these conditions; federal cooperation with qualifying state inspection programs is correspondingly expanded.) It also makes technical amendments to the Poultry Products Inspection Act to update gender-neutral language, correct cross-references, and revise subsection designations.