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FSIS and Arkansas sign cooperative agreement for meat inspection program

By News Desk on October 10, 2022

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and Arkansas have finalized a cooperative agreement under which state inspectors rather than federal inspectors may inspect meat products produced for shipment within the state.

Under the agreement…

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Wendy’s patrons may have been exposed to hepatitis A; still time for treatment for some

By News Desk on January 6, 2022

The Arkansas Department of Health  is warning of possible hepatitis A exposures after an employee of Wendy’s at 721 North Arkansas, in Russellville tested positive for the virus.

Anyone who ate at the restaurant between…
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Appellate review of Arkansas’s new “cause of action” is underway in St. Louis

By Dan Flynn on June 10, 2020

Animal activists recently took their first shot at the innovative Arkansas law to secure animal agriculture and pretty wildly missed the target. Judge “Jay” Moody dismissed in its entirety the challenge to the new law.
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What if an ‘unripe’ civil trespass statute goes to a bench trial in Arkansas?

By Dan Flynn on February 12, 2020

Back in the day, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) warned states to avoid passing what the some people called “ag-gag” laws. HSUS said “ag-gag” laws involved three elements:

  1.  a ban on taking

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Activists are now challenging civil statutes for spying on animal agriculture

By Dan Flynn on July 15, 2019

Animal activist organizations want to conduct undercover investigations by gaining entry to the nonpublic areas of private property and collecting evidence of animal abuse in the form of audio or video recordings or other documentation.
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The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states

By Dan Flynn on April 5, 2019

Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,”  laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and…
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Montana again smacks down efforts to legalize sales of unpasteurized milk

By Dan Flynn on February 26, 2019

Lingering death is the usual means for killing legislative bills, but there’s also the swift smackdown method. The Montana Legislature used that second method, also known as tabling, to cut down House Bills 516 and…
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Letter From The Editor: ‘Ag-gag’ end game in hands of many

By Dan Flynn on March 27, 2017

Funny thing about the federal courts. When enough of them get involved in an issue, they can end up showing how something can be done legally that previously was on shaky ground and subject to…
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Arkansas lawmakers take ‘civil’ approach with new ag-gag law

By Dan Flynn on March 24, 2017

Gov. Asa Hutchinson Thursday signed Arkansas House Bill 1665, adding a civil cause of action to the state’s code that permits individuals to sue over the unauthorized access to non-public areas of commercial property.

Although…
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Cannabis 101: Cues to determine shelf life of that newly legal marijuana

By News Desk on September 15, 2016

Food safety experts usually don’t see shelf life or expiration dates as big issues, but survey results consistently show that the public worries about those use-by and best-buy dates. It only stands to reason, then,…
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