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Some inspections are more equal than others under the law

Oregon wanted FSIS to allow state establishments — located in states operating under a cooperative agreement with FSIS to enforce requirements “at least equal to” federal requirements — to slaughter or process amenable species for subsequent use at federal establishments within the same state.

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Jan 2026

Some inspections are more equal than others under the law

Minnesota sheriffs want to prosecute animal welfare charges at USDA-regulated facilities

Animal Partisan’s 2-year-old petition to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service about enforcement of animal welfare laws has been endorsed by a second state law enforcement organization.

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Nov 2025

Minnesota sheriffs want to prosecute animal welfare charges at USDA-regulated facilities

Publisher’s Platform: Check your Freezers – Listeria Outbreak is Ongoing – “When it doubt, throw it out”

Despite the Listeria outbreak beginning months ago and multiple recalls happening the number of ill and death linked to the outbreak has been growing. Please check your freezers. “When it

By Bill Marler

/ 31 Oct 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Check your Freezers – Listeria Outbreak is Ongoing – “When it doubt, throw it out”

Publisher’s Platform: Public Health — See the Evil, Hear the Evil, Speak no Evil

— OPINION — In what has become a far too common and troubling occurrence, another whole genome sequenced (WGS) patient — one of the 61 confirmed sick in June 2024 — has come forward

By Bill Marler

/ 18 Oct 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Public Health — See the Evil, Hear the Evil, Speak no Evil

HelloFresh recalls meals due to Listeria

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for FSIS-inspected ready-to-eat meals produced by FreshRealm containing a Food and

By News Desk

/ 7 Oct 2025

HelloFresh recalls meals due to Listeria

Publisher’s Platform: How Nuisance Law Can Improve Food Safety

Thanks Professor Timothy D. Lytton – brilliant piece. You set the table for growers and processors of leafy greens to actually do something about the safety of the food they produce

By Bill Marler

/ 22 Sep 2025

Publisher’s Platform: How Nuisance Law Can Improve Food Safety

USDA issues public alert for Trader Joe’s frozen pizza

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for a frozen not-ready-to-eat uncured pepperoni pizza product imported from Italy that did not receive

By News Desk

/ 29 Aug 2025

USDA issues public alert for Trader Joe’s frozen pizza

The role of public sector unions in food safety renews a debate that began 90 years ago

It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt who, in 1935, signed the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, which became the foundation for modern collective bargaining through unions. But FDR had one

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Aug 2025

The role of public sector unions in food safety renews a debate that began 90 years ago

Rollins opens a new food safety lab; announces a new safety approach for USDA

At the Tuesday opening of the USDA’s new Midwestern Food Safety Laboratory near St. Louis, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins launched a comprehensive plan to bolster efforts to combat

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Jul 2025

Rollins opens a new food safety lab; announces a new safety approach for USDA

USDA asked to share animal welfare with state law enforcement in pending petition

Princess Bednarski, Livestock Manager for the Houston Humane Society (HHS), has renewed support for a 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

By Dan Flynn

/ 8 Jul 2025

USDA asked to share animal welfare with state law enforcement in pending petition

USDA pulls back from declaring it illegal to sell Salmonella contaminated poultry

Poultry producers will continue to be able to legally sell products contaminated with Salmonella now that the USDA has withdrawn a proposed regulation. The “Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry” had

By Coral Beach

/ 25 Apr 2025

USDA pulls back from declaring it illegal to sell Salmonella contaminated poultry

Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, keep me out of the meat business

— OPINION — In 1994, in response to an E. coli outbreak linked to ground beef sold at Jack in the Box restaurants, FSIS established an E. coli sampling program which treated

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Feb 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, keep me out of the meat business

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Some inspections are more equal than others under the law

Minnesota sheriffs want to prosecute animal welfare charges at USDA-regulated facilities

Publisher’s Platform: Check your Freezers – Listeria Outbreak is Ongoing – “When it doubt, throw it out”

Publisher’s Platform: Public Health — See the Evil, Hear the Evil, Speak no Evil

HelloFresh recalls meals due to Listeria

Publisher’s Platform: How Nuisance Law Can Improve Food Safety

USDA issues public alert for Trader Joe’s frozen pizza

The role of public sector unions in food safety renews a debate that began 90 years ago

Rollins opens a new food safety lab; announces a new safety approach for USDA

USDA asked to share animal welfare with state law enforcement in pending petition

USDA pulls back from declaring it illegal to sell Salmonella contaminated poultry

Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, keep me out of the meat business

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