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USDA amends the National List for organic handling, crops, and livestock

By News Desk on March 1, 2022

The USDA published a final rule in the Federal Register on Monday, amending the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances for organic foods. Some chemicals are allowed in organic production.

The National List stems…

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APHIS is making changes to national poultry plan

By News Desk on October 5, 2020

The National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) is getting an update to align with changes in the poultry industry and to incorporate new scientific information and technologies into the plan, according to USDA’s Animal and Plant…
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FDA reopens comment period on milk rule for some cheeses

By News Desk on March 27, 2020

The FDA is reopening the public comment period on a proposed rule that would allow the use of ultrafiltered milk in certain cheeses and cheese products. The move will give consumers and others an additional…
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Poultry line speed waivers possible if producers meet new criteria

By Dan Flynn on October 1, 2018

To get a “speed waiver” to run an “evisceration line” at up to 175 birds per minute, rather than the current 140 bpm, is going to require poultry businesses to jump through a few more…
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USDA delays Obama’s organic livestock standards for review

By Dan Flynn on November 14, 2017

The USDA is today publishing a notice in the Federal Register to further delay and reconsider new mandates for handling and transporting livestock and providing avian “living conditions” for poultry raised as organic food.

Without…
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USDA reopens nominations for microbiological committee

By News Desk on August 29, 2017

With more than half of the seats open on its National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, the USDA is again seeking nominations for the 30-member panel.

In a notice posted Monday in the…
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Congress hails FSIS for blocking 272 tons of bad foreign catfish

By Dan Flynn on July 5, 2017

The July 3 publication of the Federal Register made it official. Importers and brokers of catfish were put on notice about USDA’s Food Safety and inspection Service’s plans to reinspect all shipments of imported Siluriformes…
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FDA continues to trust industry under GRAS substance rule

By Dan Flynn on August 16, 2016

Tomorrow’s planned publication of a new federal rule on substances in food that are “generally recognized as safe” — GRAS — has already drawn fire that includes possible congressional action. The Food and Drug Administration’s…
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Still time to comment on inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal

By News Desk on June 30, 2016

Those wishing to comment on draft guidance for industry on inorganic arsenic levels in rice cereals for infants have 14 more days to do so. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that, because…
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FSIS Requests Comments on Listeria, Allergen Guidance

By Lydia Zuraw on April 25, 2014

Deli Meat & Listeria PreventionThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) posted four notices to the Federal Register this week. Two solicit comments from the public, while the third provides the agency’s responses to comments…
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