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CSPI/CR request to prohibit nitrate statements put on track for approval

By Dan Flynn on December 17, 2020

The USDA’S Food Safety and Inspection Service is giving a positive response to a citizen’s petition from the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Consumer Reports.

The two consumer groups by petition asked …
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New petition to FSIS seeks inspection change for imported venison products

By Dan Flynn on November 4, 2020

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released a new petition requesting the agency to modify its voluntary inspection regulations for exotic animal species to include imported exotic animal products, such as imported venison products.…
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FSIS does not see need for changing veal terminology

By Dan Flynn on October 9, 2020

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has denied a 4-year-old petition filed on behalf of the American Veal Association. The petition sought an FSIS rulemaking to establish regulatory definitions for veal and other…
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FSIS will handle avian leukosis as “trimmable condition” 

By News Desk on July 20, 2020

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in the future will handle Avian Leukosis as a “trimmable condition,”  meaning the carcasses of poultry affected with one or more of the several forms of avian leukosis complex…
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Petition seeks COVID-19 testing, reporting, warnings for meat and poultry

By Dan Flynn on May 28, 2020

An impressive sounding name — Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine — is not likely to make up for the advocacy group’s lack of scientific evidence for a new petition it has filed with USDA’s Food…
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The petition perspective from one catbird seat

By Coral Beach on January 26, 2020
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Julie Larson Bricher recently wrote an article on MeatingPlace.com outlining a petition that asks the USDA to declare 31 Salmonella serotypes as adulterants in meat and poultry. The move would make what is now…
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No approvals for 3 Food Safety and Inspection Service petitions

By Dan Flynn on January 6, 2020

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service answered three more petitions for policy changes before 2019 ended, none favorably.

Import Export Associates, Inc. petitioned the FSIS for changes in permitted safe handling…
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