USDA’s enforcement results for the new fiscal year that began last Oct. 1 for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are now available. For Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, the kickoff period for fiscal 2023 finds FSIS on track for another busy year of enforcement activities
Livestock and poultry
Continue Reading The first quarter FSIS enforcement report shows activity levels remain high
American livestock and poultry production ended a record-setting fiscal year, ending Sept.30.
Slaughter operations for both livestock and poultry under the watchful eyes of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service kept pace with higher prices being their reward.
The FSIS has released its Quarterly Enforcement Report for the final
Continue Reading USDA ‘s meat and poultry inspection unit ends a busy year
Only a handful of large meat and poultry establishments were subjected to administrative action by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service this past quarter when the industry came under pandemic pressures.
Food Safety News previously reported production during the April to June quarter kept fairly close to normal at 85.5
Continue Reading Administrative action light against large establishments during ‘COVID-19 Quarter’
2020 has started busy for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The quarterly enforcement report for the first period shows FSIS inspection program personnel had plenty to do.
Inspection program personnel performed 1,754,094 inspection procedures at USDA-inspected establishments between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019. Federal departments began the
Continue Reading Enforcement report shows uptick during USDA’s first-quarter
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service took 31 administrative actions against 21 of the nation’s largest meat and poultry facilities during the second quarter of of the federal fiscal year.
Those included 17 Notices of Intended Enforcement (NOIE) and nine suspensions that were all apparently held in abeyance. The actions
Continue Reading USDA quarterly report spotlights violations by some of biggest meat and poultry concerns
The felony indictments of Antillio Graniello and Randal Hamby, both associated with Amigos Meat Distributors in Atlanta, topped USDA’s enforcement actions this past quarter.
Hamby died before the case was ready to go to trial, and the government dismissed his charges, but Graniello remains accused of conspiracy to defraud the
Continue Reading FSIS enforcement from the plant floor to federal criminal courts in 1Q of FY 2019
The most serious criminal and civil actions the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) can take are not getting much use this year. FSIS did not pursue any criminal violations during the first three months of 2018, according to the agency’s quarterly enforcement report.
The period
Continue Reading Halfway into FY 2018, FSIS isn’t seeing much criminal action
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reported one criminal action for the last three months of 2017 in a quarterly enforcement report about the first quarter of the government’s 2018 fiscal year.
John Lonczynski, president of Greenview Meats Inc. in East Hazleton, PA, was sentenced last Oct. 17 to
Continue Reading Meat company executive receives probation for illegal sales
