Every day, hundreds of pigs arriving at American slaughterhouses are, or become, unable to stand or walk before they are slaughtered. Federal law allows the entry of these “downer” pigs
To the dismay of consumer and sustainable agriculture advocates, the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday rejected two petitions to ban certain antibiotics from being used in food animal production.
The
The Supreme Court is considering whether a California ban on slaughtering so-called “downer” pigs overstepped existing federal meat inspection laws.
Though several justices reportedly noted the good intentions behind
Since February this year, kosher broiled chicken livers have sickened at least 170 people in five states with Salmonella Heidelberg, according to state and local health departments.
In connection with
There has been a lot of talk recently about federal farm subsidies, including whether the Super Committee is going to cut them to aid in reducing the federal deficit; whether
Golden Glen Creamery of Bow, WA is recalling about 20 pounds of cheddar distributed in Washington state because the cheese may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
To date, no illnesses
A cluster of Salmonella illnesses in New Jersey and New York has been linked to broiled chicken livers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
Though we’re more than a month into fiscal year 2012, neither federal food safety agency knows what their budget will be this year. The Senate cleared an agriculture appropriations
As the Listeria outbreak linked to Colorado cantaloupes continues to take its toll, the government is calling on the cantaloupe industry to ramp up its food safety protocol — something some
Whittington’s Jerky of Johnson City, TX, is recalling approximately 126 pounds of beef jerky that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety
The ongoing Listeria outbreak caused by contaminated cantaloupe, with 29 deaths, has been called the most deadly foodborne illness in recent U.S. history.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Just as the high-end 69-restaurant chain known as Morton’s of Chicago began mourning the death of its founder, news of an embarrassing lawsuit against its Boca Raton,