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
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.
Continue Reading New petition to FSIS seeks inspection change for imported venison products
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
Continue Reading FSIS does not see need for changing veal terminology
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
Continue Reading FSIS will handle avian leukosis as “trimmable condition”
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
Continue Reading Petition seeks COVID-19 testing, reporting, warnings for meat and poultry
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
Continue Reading The petition perspective from one catbird seat
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
Continue Reading No approvals for 3 Food Safety and Inspection Service petitions
