Citing fragmented food safety oversight, which is split up between 15 federal agencies, two lawmakers want Congress to scrap the current system and the ineffective laws that regulate it.
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Describing the U.S. food safety system as “hopelessly fragmented and outdated,” a congresswoman is pushing for the creation of a single federal agency to secure the nation’s food
The nomination of Mindy Brashears, currently deputy undersecretary for food safety, to be the USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety was reported favorably Tuesday out of the Senate Committee
The agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos, which escaped being banned nationally a couple of years ago, soon won’t be legally available in New York or Hawaii.
In 2018, Hawaii enacted legislation
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Not all Salmonella are alike. Camplyobacter likely similar.
Preharvest economic incentives haven’t eliminated STEC but imagine what the data would be like if there were none. Leafy greens
Grant Park Packing, a Franklin Park, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 53,200 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O103, the U.S.
One of the more bizarre powers of local government will likely end this week or next when the Florida House of Representatives votes to make vegetable gardening a right that
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Federal judges so far haven’t been willing to share any of their enviable security blanket with animal agriculture.
But that might change if a strategy out of Iowa
The United Kingdom will lose access to RASFF after Brexit and Britain’s future relationship with EFSA remains unclear, according to the British public health minister. Britain’s future trade
Some fresh produce from hydroponic growers has been approved for and is being sold under USDA’s organic seal, but farmers who grow their organic crops in the soil don’
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue is no longer waiting for U.S. Senate action to beef-up his C-Suite.
Perdue Monday named Mindy Brashears as Deputy Under Secretary for
