The Meat and Poultry Hotline and the “Ask Karen” online chat service have gone to expanded hours, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Both consumer lines are for
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USDA beefs up scrutiny of Brazilian beef amid bribery scandal
None of the slaughter or processing facilities targeted by the Federal Police in Brazil have shipped meat products to the United States, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Nevertheless, FSIS immediately instituted
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Vacant positions are slowing things down at FDA and FSIS
While the Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price says we can expect the next Food and Drug Administrator commissioner to be named soon, significant meetings held by designated FDA policy makers with persons
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January saw few outside meetings for top food safety officials
The federal government’s transition month of January saw only a handful of meetings involving top food safety officials and members of the public.
Both the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and U.S. Food
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USDA saying less during transition, but scientists not gagged
Reports of a black out on public information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are vastly overblown.
ARS Chief of Staff Sharon Drumm did send out a three-line email Tuesday to the
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Storms and stability ahead for food safety efforts in 2017
Food safety in 2017 will be dependent on our “complicated bureaucracies” that exist to get through transitions and times of change. Both USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Food and Drug
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Almanza ends his deputy undersecretary appointment with plenty of meetings
When his appointment as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety comes to an end on Jan. 20, 2017, Al Almanza, who never gave up his career employee status, will just switch back to being Administrator
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Don’t poison the family: Wash your hands, not the turkey
Editor’s note: Provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Millions of Americans are about to gather family and friends around the dinner table to give thanks. But for those preparing
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USDA says activists off the mark with catfish complaints
The activist group Food and Water Watch is down as a “strong supporter” of the catfish program now underway in USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). It would, however, like to see more progress
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Traffic through Almanza’s office didn’t slow in summer months
Who spent time this summer with Al Almanza, USDA’s deputy under secretary for food safety and its acting administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service? Industry and union representatives, foreign dignitaries, a former boss,
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