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Animal activist group asks FSIS for more regulation of ‘Custom Exempt’ slaughter

By Dan Flynn on January 22, 2023

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…

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Would you like some lungs with that?

By Dan Flynn on January 21, 2023

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…

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Goose Processors wants amendment to ready-to-cook poultry regulations

By Dan Flynn on April 22, 2022

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 …
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Petition would allow transportation of hides; remove ‘inedible’ from definition

By News Desk on November 24, 2021

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

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Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Bill goes to Washington again, and again, and again

By Bill Marler on November 19, 2021
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In 2011 I wrote:

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

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FSIS calls Salmonella serotypes as adulterants a ‘new approach’

By Dan Flynn on October 25, 2021

Twenty-two months after a petition was filed requesting that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) declare certain “outbreak” serotypes of Salmonella to be per se adulterants in meat and poultry,  the government is still…
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Petition responses point to direction that regulators are going on lab-grown meat labeling

By Dan Flynn on September 21, 2021

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has responded to petition sponsors with differing opinions about how lab-grown “meat” and “beef” should be labeled.

The FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development has denied the…
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It won’t be COOL, but cattlemen say it will improve beef labeling

By Dan Flynn on June 17, 2021

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has petitioned USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for a new labeling scheme for beef products.

The petition, assigned to the FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development,…
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Petitions for large and small changes are piling up at Food Safety and Inspection Service

By Dan Flynn on June 9, 2021

For whatever good it will do, you have the right to petition the federal government. However, the industry, consumers, and even foreign governments take one petition process very seriously. It’s the petition for rulemaking at …
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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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