During further processing, Arkansas’s Simmons Prepared Foods Inc. recently discovered extraneous metal in its poultry production in the town of Gentry. Simmons, with headquarters in Siloam Springs, has decided to recall 2,071,397 pounds of poultry
22 tons of poultry that should not have been in U.S. recalled for skipping inspection
Cay Thi Queentrees Food USA, an importer of record out of Garden Grove, CA, has recalled 43,848 pounds of poultry products that were imported and distributed in the United States without the benefit of FSIS
More than 800 beef products now under recall for E. coli risk
Public health officials have added another 18 products to a list of recalled beef and veal items that now has more than 830 entries. An investigation into E. coli contamination prompted all of the regional
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Why we are modernizing swine slaughter inspection
Opinion
USDA’s Mindy Brashears submitted this column to Food Safety News this week.
In the world of food safety, 1993 was a watershed moment. Early that year, hundreds of people became ill and four children
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Final hog rule sent off to the Federal Register, ending the HIMP pilot era after 22 years
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s new regulatory system for market hogs is a direct descendant of the food safety reforms first put in place after the Jack-in-the-Box tragedy 25 years ago.
FSIS made
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Nicole Suggs of FSIS
Contributed
Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here with permission.
Nicole Suggs is an import
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Publisher’s Platform: FSIS knows your chicken is tainted, says it’s OK to sell, but tells you not to wash it
By warning you not to wash chicken (or other poultry), FSIS correctly recognizes the risk of cross-contamination in your kitchen and the risk that it poses to you and your family – especially children and
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Criminal convictions top FSIS Quarterly Enforcement Report
The USDA’s quarterly report of enforcement activities by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is topped off by the criminal conviction of Antillio Graniello.
The U.S. District Court for the Nothern District of Georgia
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USDA finds religious exempt chicken, small operators have pathogen problems
Tests showed a higher than average prevalence of Salmonella and Campylobacter in chicken that is produced under religious exemptions and at low-volume facilities, but the government is not going to propose rules for them.
USDA audits world’s third smallest country for pork exports
Two-way trade between the United States and the micro-state of San Marino is a mere $7 million a year. And a scant amount of that involves any food or agricultural product whatsoever.
The world’s oldest
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France’s food safety system found equivalent to USA for veal, pork and ready-to-eat meats
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service released a new on-site equivalence verification audit for France. It did not find any deficiencies that represented an immediate threat to public health.
The report was posted on the
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