China has suspended imports of shellfish from the West Coast of the United States after finding high levels of arsenic and a toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning in recent
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated the nation’s stance on beef imports with regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the fatal affliction in cattle commonly
Food products now come to the United States from over 250,000 foreign establishments in 200 countries. Indeed, 15 percent of fruits, 20 percent of vegetables, and 80 percent of
The number of food safety and plant health trade barriers plaguing U.S. agricultural exports is way up, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a congressional committee recently.
“In the last
A controversial animal drug, fed to a majority of pigs raised in the United States, has become the focus of a long-running trade dispute centered on meat exports.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is holding a public meeting to provide information and receive comments on agenda items, as well as
If rural America kicks the lite version of animal identification (ID) to the curb just as it did the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), an economic study says export markets
An alternative meat inspection program used by Australian exporters maintains sanitation standards equal to those of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), according to a notice of
For the second time in less than a week, multiple foods imported from German have passed dioxin tests by Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety, known for its ability
Canada is looking at new regulations for certain imported food products.
As part of the process, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is seeking input from stakeholders and the Canadian
The headline-grabbing recall of over half a billion eggs for Salmonella contamination in the U.S. is complicating the ongoing dispute with Russia over the acceptance of U.S. poultry
American poultry is inching closer to full Russian acceptance as a months long trade dispute drags on.
Russian officials declared in January they would no longer accept imported poultry processed