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Dueling inspection systems produce another round of competing data

By Dan Flynn on February 23, 2021

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   Inspection System or NSIS pilot in…
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Federal court in California will hear oral arguments in USDA motion to dismiss swine lawsuit

By Dan Flynn on April 9, 2020

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 inspection system for market hogs. USDA earlier …
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FSIS denies F&WW petition, seeking permanent the ban on Brazilian meat

By Dan Flynn on March 2, 2020

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, an independent cattlemen’s group said Brazilian…
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Lawsuit challenges USDA’s New Swine Inspection System; cites public safety

By Guest Contributor on January 14, 2020
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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 New Swine Inspection System (NSIS)…
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3-year old break for medium-sized CAFOs gets challenged in D.C. court

By Dan Flynn on March 27, 2019

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 animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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

By Coral Beach on January 17, 2019

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 shutdown. The askkaren.gov service is …
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USDA says activists off the mark with catfish complaints

By News Desk on October 12, 2016

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, however, like to see more progress…
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Safe Food Coalition says safe handling labels need a rewrite

By Dan Flynn on June 2, 2016

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 and catfish. The petition calls upon…
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Activists challenge NC’s new ‘ag-gag’ law in federal court

By Dan Flynn on January 14, 2016

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 criminal law. North Carolina joined…
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More Poultry Producers Expected to Switch to New Inspection System in 2016

By Dan Flynn on December 28, 2015

poultryinspection_406x250Enlistments 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. Circuit on Dec. 21 tossed a legal challenge…
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Organic Industry Wants Biotechnology Regulated By Process, Not Product

By Dan Flynn on June 23, 2015

About 40 activist organizations that usually can be counted upon to rally with the organic industry against genetically engineered (GE) plants and animals did just that on Monday. They weighed in with a letter to…
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