Editor’s Note: In this year-end summary, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reports on its key achievements for fiscal year (FY) 2020 and highlights progress on its goal of modernizing the agency and fulfilling
Continue Reading Here’s what the Food Safety and Inspection Service did in fiscal year 2020
After eight months on the job as boss over USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service headquarters (FSIS), Administrator Paul Kiecker likely is feeling like P.T. Barnum.
Kiecker’s meetings with people outside of the federal government
Continue Reading New FSIS boss moves from one telephonic ring to another
If the United States had a single independent food safety authority like most counties, a change of administrators would not be a significant event. But with food safety spread across as many as 20 departments
Continue Reading Election brings change of some food safety officials from across government
During the modernization era for meat and poultry, how fast carcasses are moved across the slaughter floor is an issue that’s created controversies involving both food safety and worker safety.
Line speed, as it is
Continue Reading Faster line speeds may not be the food safety issue some thought
The industry of animal cell-based/cultured technology has not yet brought any products to market, but the entry is fast approaching and applicable federal labels are soon going to be required.
And, the North American Meat
Continue Reading Conventional and cultured industries express goals for federal labels
The
Continue Reading USDA food safety agencies announces plan to reduce Salmonella
Unlike the first 90 days or so of the coronavirus pandemic, not every outsider who made contact with USDA’s top Food Safety and Inspection Service executives in June wanted to talk about COVID-19. Nor was
Continue Reading Food safety brass over summer were taking COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 calls
When there are Star Trek replicators, what are they going to call the meat, poultry, or seafood products that come out of them? Steaks and chops and chicken breasts from the replicators will be grown
Continue Reading FDA/USDA say they are making progress on labeling cell-made food
The day after she was finally confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Mindy Brashears was back home in Lubbock, TX, giving an Ag Appreciation Day speech to the local Chamber of Commerce. After that, she’s found
Continue Reading At the start, Brashears finds Under Secretary for Food Safety job is all COVID-19 all the time
Bill Marler is getting the last word on the petition he filed with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in January, which is on behalf of Rick Schiller, Steven Romes, the Porter Family, Food
Continue Reading Bill Marler’s last word (or maybe not) on the Salmonella petition
The federal government this week signaled its willingness to take over any part of the food industry that isn’t functioning properly to keep production flowing.
For the moment, the extended authority is being provided to
Continue Reading From meat to fruits and vegetables, the fight to prevent food shortages moves on
