Food at the border

Here's a food law issue I hadn't thought about: what can you bring across the border in your suitcase?  An AP article by Michele Kayal caught my eye:

Think twice before stuffing your suitcase with prosciutto (on USAtoday.com)

Jamie Mitchell offered to eat the illicit ham on the spot, but the border official was having none of it.

"I said 'Can I just have a couple pieces of it now?' and she said, 'I really can't let you do that,'" said the Washington lawyer, recalling his tussle with customs regulations at Philadelphia International Airport last year.

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