A unit has been created in France to gain a deeper insight into certain pathogens in food plants.
The Actia Fastypers group was started by the French Ministry of Agriculture. It runs for five years and involves ANSES, the National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (Inrae), dairy specialist Actalia
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has developed a guidance document for producers of raw drinking milk in England and Wales.
The guidance has been produced in response to increasing sales and outbreaks related to unpasteurized milk. Between 2015 and 2017 there were five outbreaks linked to raw milk. These included
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Editor’s note: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, sent the below letter regarding so-called lab meat and other cell-cultured foods to Gene Dodaro, comptroller general of the United States, on March 28.
Dear Mr. Dodaro:
I am writing to request that GAO investigate what regulatory framework, if any, exists for cell-cultured
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Some of the most disgusting images of modern agriculture being presented to the American public are those of old cull cows being inhumanely treated and mishandled by workers in the slaughter house pens. The Humane Society of the United States, PETA and other organizations that want us to stop slaughtering
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If a Wisconsin raw-milk seller is convicted of the misdemeanor charges against him, it could have a “chilling effect” on dairy buying clubs or cow-share schemes, according to a commentary on the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund website.
Vernon Hershberger of Loganville, WI, who leases his cows to a “food buyers
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If you think you’re paying too much for a gallon of milk these days, it could be the result of an elaborate price-fixing scheme, according to a recent class action that charges the dairy industry with federal antitrust violations, among other claims.
The case was instigated by the animal advocacy
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Michigan’s De Jong Dairy in Hickory Corners and New York’s Valmont Dairy at Lowville are the latest to cross the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over drug residues in animals recently sold for slaughter as human food.
De Jong received a July 6 warning letter and Valmont received a July
Dairy farms in Kentucky, California, Kansas, and New Mexico are among latest to run afoul of federal regulations limiting antibiotic residues in cattle sold for slaughter as human food.
Each got into trouble the same way: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came around to inspect the dairy operation
Warning letters on March 25, March 28, and April 6 put dairy farms in California, Idaho and Wisconsin on notice about misuse of animal antibiotics.
In each case, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it turned to the testing USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service does on
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