USDA · USDA-176 · record R1474

PHIS Export Library Assistant

Department of Agriculture · Food Safety

Overview

Development stage: In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.
High-impact designation: Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
Impact justification: Not reported
Start date: Not reported
Withheld from public reporting: Not reported

Mission

Topic area: Service Delivery
Operational functions: No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Members of the meat industry apply for export certification in Food Safety Inspection Service's (FSIS) Public Health Information System (PHIS) and then FSIS employees review and certify that the exported products meet foreign country requirements. These foreign country requirements are often complicated and text based, requiring industry applicants and FSIS employees to find and read complicated text documents to verify that proposed export products meet applicable requirements. This AI use case is intended to aid PHIS users in finding foreign country requirements applicable to a particular export application through a context-aware chat-capable AI interface integrated in the PHIS user interface.

Expected benefits

This tool would be expected to reduce the labor costs and time spent by industry applicants and Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) employees in creating, submitting, and approving meat and poultry exports. The tool should also decrease mistakes, reducing the need for replacement certificates.

System outputs

The Export Library assistant would output text-based suggestions and links for review from the applicable Export Library document about the applicable requirements.

Technology

AI classification: Generative AISource: Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).
System name(s): Not reported
Custom-developed code: Not reported
Public source code: Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built: Not reported
Vendor (as reported): Not reported
Vendors (standardized): None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII: Not reported
Privacy Impact Assessment: Not reported
Authorization to Operate: Not reported
Demographic features: Not reported
Training and evaluation data: Not reported
Federal Data Catalog: Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported

AI impact assessmentNo answer reported

Independent reviewNo answer reported

Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported

Operator trainingNo answer reported

Fail-safeNo answer reported

Appeal processNo answer reported

User and public consultationNo answer reported

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported