Consumer Reports Tuesday sent out some suggestions for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to ensure the safety and availability of meat, poultry and other food products during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CR’s sent the advice
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Uruguay’s inspections of beef and lamb found “equivalent to that of United States”
Uruguay exports raw and processed beef and lamb products to the United States, and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) finds no reason that those shipments cannot continue.
The FSIS performed an on-site equivalence
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USDA admits it may be misleading consumers with ‘Product of USA’ labeling
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service admitted Thursday it may be misleading consumers about where their meat comes from. The admission came in response to a petition filed by the United States Cattlemen’s Association about
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Veteran lobbyist joins former USDA food safety leader to form new venture
Some big money in Washington D.C. can be found at boutique K Street lobbying firms. Nobody knows that better than Randy Russell, president of the Russel Group, which for 40 years has worked the halls
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Meat industry wants more comment time for ‘most significant policy change’ in decades
Food safety attorney Bill Marler’s petition to ban meat from containing any of 31 Salmonella outbreak serotypes “would be one of the most significant policy changes affecting the meat and poultry industries in decades,” according
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New equivalency audit for UK meat was completed under EU regulations
Between USDA’s on-site verification audit of the United Kingdom’s meat inspection system July 15-Aug.2, 2019, and last Friday’s public release of the report, Britain left the European Union.
The report, which contains “no systemic findings,”
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Final corrective actions cleared Namibia to export its first raw beef to U.S.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service sent it’s auditors to Namibia this past September to conduct a foreign equivalency audit for the country’s raw beef exports to the United States. And on one level, it
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FSIS denies F&WW petition, seeking permanent the ban on Brazilian meat
Imported meat from Brazil is not without its detractors in the United States. After the USDA announced it was re-opening the U.S. market to imports of fresh Brazilian beef, an independent cattlemen’s group said Brazilian
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Food safety systems governing Hungary’s meat products pass USDA audit
A foreign audit report for Hungary has been released to the public by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The in-country inspection occurred from July 22 through Aug. 2, 2019, and earned approval for
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Food safety game plan for your Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl LIV is set to kick off this Sunday at 6:30 EST. The Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will be facing off for the Lombardi Trophy in Miami. This game should
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The petition perspective from one catbird seat
Opinion
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
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