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
Continue Reading Animal activist group asks FSIS for more regulation of ‘Custom Exempt’ slaughter
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
Continue Reading Would you like some lungs with that?
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
Continue Reading Goose Processors wants amendment to ready-to-cook poultry regulations
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
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
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Bill goes to Washington again, and again, and again
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
Continue Reading FSIS calls Salmonella serotypes as adulterants a ‘new approach’
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
Continue Reading Petition responses point to direction that regulators are going on lab-grown meat labeling
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,
Continue Reading It won’t be COOL, but cattlemen say it will improve beef labeling
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
Continue Reading Petitions for large and small changes are piling up at Food Safety and Inspection Service
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
Continue Reading CSPI/CR request to prohibit nitrate statements put on track for approval
