The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) invites you to a free interactive webinar on Federal marketing orders and agreements. Find out how more than 20 different fruit and vegetable industry segments in different areas of the country have created customized voluntary agreements that allow them to better market their products. If your commodity group participates in a marketing order or agreement, or is considering it, don’t miss this informative webinar. Marketing Order and Agreement Division Director Michael Durando will answer all of your questions about these important marketing tools, including:• What are marketing orders and agreements?• Why would we establish one? What are the benefits?• How do we start an order or agreement? • What is USDA’s role in these arrangements?For more information or to register click here
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The 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), calling upon the agency to share its federal jurisdiction over animal abuse with state
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has updated its public calendar to provide information about its meetings in March and April.
It lists meetings held by the
IAEA and FAO are to hold an event next year focusing on the use of nuclear technologies for food safety.
The International Symposium on Food Safety and Control will take
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent
Prairie Farms is announcing a recall of select Prairie Farms Gallon Fat Free Milk produced at its Dubuque, IA, facility and distributed to Woodman’s stores in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Aoun brand tahineh is under recall in Canada because of contamination with Salmonella.
The recall was triggered by test results from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
The recalled tahineh was
Thanksgiving is a time for family, friends and feasting. Once the holiday meal ends, the spotlight turns to enjoying the leftovers in the days ahead. To keep those leftovers safe
