The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public comment on a petition from a vaccine manufacturer that wants approval to produce foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine consisting of
Continue Reading APHIS petition seeks approval for U.S. production of foot and mouth vaccine
One person has died and more than 350 additional people have been infected with Salmonella from backyard poultry flocks, according to a CDC outbreak update. A third of the ill people are children younger than
Continue Reading Salmonella outbreak now involves 1 death and 42 states; live poultry blamed
Public health officials continue to investigate an E. coli outbreak linked to raw pet food sold under the Carnivora brand.
Of four sick people identified so far, all had the same strain of E. coli
Continue Reading Raw pet food blamed for human E. coli outbreak
Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. This
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TDBBS is recalling some of its pig ear pet treats because state testing found Salmonella in a sample. As with other pet product companies recently, the TDBBS recall comes amidst a nationwide outbreak among people
Continue Reading More pig ear pet treats recalled because of Salmonella
Consumers should not feed their pets certain Aunt Jeni’s frozen raw pet foods because samples have tested positive for Listeria, which can cause life-threatening illness in humans. The food has also tested positive for Salmonella.
Continue Reading FDA alerts public about Listeria, Salmonella in some raw pet food
Citing efforts to improve transparency and public access to information about approved antibiotics for animas, the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has published certain medicated feed information, including information about Blue
Continue Reading FDA begins posting additional information about antibiotics for animals
Shortly before federal officials issued a blanket warning against pig ear pet treats today a New Jersey company expanded its recall of such products that are directly linked to a human outbreak of Salmonella infections
Continue Reading Lennox expands recall of pet treats; dozens of new human illnesses reported
Cargill pulled a variety of animal feeds with excessive levels of aflatoxins from retail shelves from February through April, but the company did not announce the action until this week.
Aflatoxin is a fungal toxin
Continue Reading Cargill recalls feed for excessive aflatoxins; handlers at risk of liver damage
The agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos, which escaped being banned nationally a couple of years ago, soon won’t be legally available in New York or Hawaii.
In 2018, Hawaii enacted legislation to ban chlorpyrifos beginning in 2022.
Continue Reading New York steps ahead of Hawaii on agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos
JBS Souderton Inc. continued to distribute pentobarbital-adulterated products to customers even after receiving formal notification of pentobarbital contamination, according to a warning letter issued on April 23 by the Food and Drug Administration.
The warning
Continue Reading JBS knowingly distributed products containing euthanasia drug
