The latest proposed rule issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is meant to improve the safety of animal food. Under
The Food and Drug Administration responded Monday to a four-year-old petition from the Center for Food Safety and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, stating that the agency was
About 15 percent of all foods we consume are imported. Looking at some particular categories, the numbers are far more striking: imports make up 91 percent of our seafood, 60
After a magistrate judge ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must act on its long-standing proposal to ban the use of three antibiotics in animal feed because
At 985 locations around the United States, companies hold medicated feed licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These licenses are held by some of agribusiness’s
A commonly used animal drug is being suspended from sale in response to new U.S. Food and Drug Administration data showing it increases arsenic levels in chicken livers.
Though
Five years after the European Union banned antibiotics in animal feed, South Korea is about to become the first Asian country to embrace such a restriction.
Beginning in July, South
Legally used in certain countries outside the United States as a prescription medical treatment for asthma in humans and airway obstruction in horses, clenbuterol, classified as a beta2-adrenergic agonist, is
About 3,000 German farms were given the go-ahead to resume making food deliveries as an investigation continues into how dioxin got into animal feed and eggs, the BBC reported
Located off Interstate 77 in Hamptonville, NC, the 33-year-old CMC Commodity Transport Inc. trucks products in both food-grade tankers and “walking floor” trailers.
During an inspection last Feb. 8 &
In light of recent food recalls, the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Office of Research (OR) has developed a
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week calling for