Describing the U.S. food safety system as “hopelessly fragmented and outdated,” a congresswoman is pushing for the creation of a single federal agency to secure the nation’s food supply.
Currently, the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture each have jurisdiction over food, with the FDA responsible
Continue Reading Congressional duo continues push for switch to single food safety agency
ALERT: A USDA spokesperson told Food Safety News the agency is not staffing its phones dedicated to consumer complaints about meat, poultry and processed egg products during the partial government shutdown. The askkaren.gov service is operating online, but USDA responses might be delayed.
The head of the Food and
Continue Reading ALERT: U.S. representative, advocates say food safety programs dangerously disrupted
Five years after U.S. representatives wrote to the USDA about the agency’s “unacceptable” response to Salmonella outbreaks traced to chicken, one of the lawmakers says déjà vu is not acceptable as a food safety policy.
Federal health officials announced yesterday that 92 people are confirmed infected in a new outbreak
Continue Reading Lawmaker says new outbreak shows USDA, poultry industry need to act
Ten Democrats who are members of the Congressional Food Safety Caucus are asking President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to get someone named as USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety.
In April 2017 Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, left, sat at the right
Continue Reading Food Safety Caucus urges Trump to name Under Secretary
