The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has completed its review of the Nov. 4, 2022 petition from Iceland’s TopIceland.com
The petition asked FSIS to clarify that regulations that prescribe the requirements for importing small amounts of meat products for the importer’s consumption apply to those purchased over the
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Even the petitioner, Dr. Jonathan Reisman of Philadelphia, acknowledged that his is an “unusual request.” It was 2023’s first petition to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for a policy change.
The medical doctor’s petition requests that FSIS amend the 9 CFR 310.16(a) regulations to remove the prohibition on
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In a kind of” twofer” Marler Clark, the Food Safety Law Firm, has provided USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service with more arguments on why certain Salmonella serotypes should be declared adulterants in meat.
It’s a “twofer” because Marler Clark’s new comments were submitted under two dockets — the FSIS
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The Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal Protection have jointly petitioned USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for a policy change.
Their petition requests that FSIS conduct rulemaking to
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Scott Faber, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, and Kalena Wojtala, a J.D. candidate at Vermont Law School and an intern working for the Environmental Working Group (EWG), have filed the latest petition with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
In the petition filed on April 27, the EWG
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A multi-million dollar Washington D.C.-based nonprofit, the Animal Welfare Institute, has filed the second petition this year seeking a policy change with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The Animal Welfare Institute petition has been assigned to the FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development for review and assigned petition
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Jonathan Reisman, a Philadelphia MD and author of the book “The Unseen Body,” has a simple request for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Rule 9CFR 310.16(a) says “Livestock lungs shall not be saved for use as human food.” In a formal petition to FSIS, Reisman asks that the
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Canada’s Northern Goose Processors Ltd. has petitioned USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to amend regulations implementing the Poultry Products Inspection Regulations’ proposed definition of ready-to-cook poultry.
The 47-page submission was assigned petition number 22-01 and referred to the FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development.
It calls for
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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has received a petition from the Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center (FAPC) on the campus of Oklahoma State University. The petition requests that FSIS amend 9 CFR 325.19(e) to remove “hides” from the articles considered naturally inedible by humans that
Continue Reading Petition would allow transportation of hides; remove ‘inedible’ from definition
Last week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground turkey products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. According to the press release, “Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, a Springdale, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 36 million pounds of ground turkey products
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