Food and Water Watch

EPA likely will have to speak up on CAFOs

They’ve many years invested and their latest legal arguments ran 198 pages, but Food and Water Watch and their many allies wanted something pretty simple. They wanted the U.

By Dan Flynn

/ 27 Oct 2022

EPA likely will have to speak up on CAFOs

Consumer groups encourage USDA secretary to continue efforts to make chicken products safer

Several groups, including Consumer Reports and STOP Foodborne Illness, have written to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack in support of increased food safety efforts regarding Salmonella in poultry. The groups describe

By Coral Beach

/ 14 Sep 2022

Consumer groups encourage USDA secretary to continue efforts to make chicken products safer

Dueling inspection systems produce another round of competing data

For the past quarter-century, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has run two options for inspecting hogs. The HACCP-based Inspection Model Project or HIMP evolved into the New Swine

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Feb 2021

Dueling inspection systems produce another round of competing data

Federal court in California will hear oral arguments in USDA motion to dismiss swine lawsuit

The USDA by April 15 will ask a federal court in California to dismiss a second lawsuit filed to overturn the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS’s) new

By Dan Flynn

/ 9 Apr 2020

Federal court in California will hear oral arguments in USDA motion to dismiss swine lawsuit

FSIS denies F&WW petition, seeking permanent the ban on Brazilian meat

Imported meat from Brazil is not without its detractors in the United States. After the USDA announced it was re-opening the U.S. market to imports of fresh Brazilian beef,

By Dan Flynn

/ 2 Mar 2020

FSIS denies F&WW petition, seeking permanent the ban on Brazilian meat

Lawsuit challenges USDA’s New Swine Inspection System; cites public safety

Opinion Today (Jan. 13, 2019,) Center for Food Safety (CFS), Food & Water Watch (FWW), and two supporting members filed an actionagainst the U.S. Department of Agriculture for issuing

By Guest Contributor

/ 14 Jan 2020

Lawsuit challenges USDA’s New Swine Inspection System; cites public safety

3-year old break for medium-sized CAFOs gets challenged in D.C. court

Animal and environmental organizations, joined by several rural community activists, want a U.S. District Court judge to strike down Obama-era regulations that give a break to smaller mid-sized concentrated

By Dan Flynn

/ 27 Mar 2019

3-year old break for medium-sized CAFOs gets challenged in D.C. court

ALERT: U.S. representative, advocates say food safety programs dangerously disrupted

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

By Coral Beach

/ 17 Jan 2019

ALERT: U.S. representative, advocates say food safety programs dangerously disrupted

USDA says activists off the mark with catfish complaints

The activist group Food and Water Watch is down as a “strong supporter” of the catfish program now underway in USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). It would,

By News Desk

/ 12 Oct 2016

Safe Food Coalition says safe handling labels need a rewrite

Seven well-known consumer groups acting together as the Safe Food Coalition are petitioning USDA’s Food Safety and inspection Service for a revised safe handling instruction label for meat, poultry

By Dan Flynn

/ 2 Jun 2016

Activists challenge NC’s new ‘ag-gag’ law in federal court

A third state was hauled into federal court Wednesday where it will have to defend its recently enacted law to protect the privacy of animal agriculture under the force of

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Jan 2016

More Poultry Producers Expected to Switch to New Inspection System in 2016

Enlistments in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s New Poultry Inspection System (NPIS) will likely increase in the new year after the Court of Appeals for the D.C.

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 Dec 2015

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EPA likely will have to speak up on CAFOs

Consumer groups encourage USDA secretary to continue efforts to make chicken products safer

Dueling inspection systems produce another round of competing data

Federal court in California will hear oral arguments in USDA motion to dismiss swine lawsuit

FSIS denies F&WW petition, seeking permanent the ban on Brazilian meat

Lawsuit challenges USDA’s New Swine Inspection System; cites public safety

3-year old break for medium-sized CAFOs gets challenged in D.C. court

ALERT: U.S. representative, advocates say food safety programs dangerously disrupted

USDA says activists off the mark with catfish complaints

Safe Food Coalition says safe handling labels need a rewrite

Activists challenge NC’s new ‘ag-gag’ law in federal court

More Poultry Producers Expected to Switch to New Inspection System in 2016