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APHIS welcomes comments on the new animal disease traceability scheme

By News Desk on January 19, 2023

 USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations and require electronic identification for the interstate movement of certain cattle and bison.

The change will permit official USDA…

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European rules for safer food come into force

By News Desk on December 12, 2019

Regulations aimed at modernizing protections against animal diseases and plant pests as well as improving food safety will apply beginning at the end of this week in Europe.

The United Kingdom will implement EU Smarter…
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‘Gold standard’ of defense against animal disease sought in Farm Bill

By Dan Flynn on August 17, 2018

Food safety is for naught if animal diseases are not kept at bay. The federal Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program is funded through the so-called Farm Bill. And 120 groups representing animal agriculture late…
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EFSA: Farm Size Not a Factor in Bovine Diseases in Europe

By News Desk on June 16, 2015

In a recent study, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) found that farm size does not make a difference when it comes to bovine diseases. That finding by the EFSA Panel on Animal Health and…
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UK Food Experts Share Their Concerns in Latest Issue of Bite

By Dan Flynn on August 31, 2012

Food safety experts in the United Kingdom share what they are worried about in the latest issue of Bite: The Food Standards Agency magazine with teeth, The latest issue — now available online —…
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Going Without Animal ID Will Be Costly, Study Says

By Dan Flynn on September 27, 2011

If rural America kicks the lite version of animal identification (ID) to the curb just as it did the National Animal Identification System (NAIS),  an economic study says export markets for U.S. beef and pork…

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Second Go at Animal Disease Traceability Hits Bumps

By Dan Flynn on September 20, 2011

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is experiencing a hailstorm of opposition to its new animal disease traceability system as the proposal reaches the halfway point in the comment period that ends November 9.…

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UK: Report Suggests Rules for Open Farms

By Dan Flynn on June 18, 2010

Another report into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 by an independent commission in the United Kingdom is complete.  Several others preceded it.

This one is known as the “Griffin Report” after Professor George Griffin…

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NAIS Dead, Food Safety Not A Goal

By Dan Flynn on February 11, 2010

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack killed the $142 million National Animal Identification System (NAIS), and any hope it might contribute to food safety, last week.

At a meeting of state agriculture commissioners, Vilsack said the NAIS…

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