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 regulation, facilities that manufacture,
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FDA to Withdraw Approvals for Arsenic in Animal Feed
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 in the process of formally
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Three Food Safety Rules Grow Moldy at OIRA as Import-Related Outbreaks Continue
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 percent of our fruits and
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FDA Appeals Mandate to Ban Three Animal Antibiotics
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 they may contribute to antibiotic resistance
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FDA Wants Corrections at Two Medicated-Feed Mills
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 biggest names —Tyson’s, Cargill, Perdue, Foster Farms
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FDA Data Prompts Pfizer to Suspend Poultry Drug
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 public health and industry experts stress
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South Korea Bans Antibiotics in Animal Feed
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 Korea is promising to strictly
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A Performance Drug That Can Taint Feed, Athletes
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 perhaps more commonly known for
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Germany Trying to Contain Dioxin Scare
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 Sunday.
But although health experts say
Cottonseed Hauler Blames Driver For Dirty Trailer
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 & 9, inspectors from the U.S.
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