FSIS

USDA investigated six outbreaks in FY 2023; none resulted in recalls or public warnings

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has released its outbreak report for fiscal year 2023 and detailed the six investigations carried out during that time. The report covers

By Coral Beach

/ 28 Feb 2024

USDA investigated six outbreaks in FY 2023; none resulted in recalls or public warnings

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Ciarra Toomey

FSIS’ International Liaison Director in Mexico City, Mexico, Ciarra Toomey, began her USDA career in 2008 as a trial attorney with the Office of the General Counsel’s (OGC) Trade

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

/ 5 Feb 2024

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Ciarra Toomey

Amos Miller exits federal court in 2023 as the third time is the charm

Amish farmer Amos Miller is holding up his third agreement with the federal government. It means his appearances in federal court are over. USDA enforcement of federal food safety regulations

By Dan Flynn

/ 30 Nov 2023

Amos Miller exits federal court in 2023 as the third time is the charm

Brashears: Beating salmonella in poultry needs to focus on serotypes causing human illness with improved data

Mindy Brashears was Under Secretary for Food Safety in late 2020 when USDA’s Office of Food Safety (OFS) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released a plan

By Dan Flynn

/ 22 Nov 2023

Brashears: Beating salmonella in poultry needs to focus on serotypes causing human illness with improved data

Labeling lab-grown meat and poultry isn’t likely to be easy

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has a labeling manual that runs about 40 pages. And it seems there are always petitions for labeling changes in the

By Dan Flynn

/ 21 Nov 2023

Labeling lab-grown meat and poultry isn’t likely to be easy

The top 3 food safety agencies work in collaboration on foodborne illness sources

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture—teamed up

By News Desk

/ 31 Aug 2023

The top 3 food safety agencies work in collaboration on foodborne illness sources

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

— OPINION — Over two months ago, while watching the premiere of the documentary, “Poisoned,” at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, I got thinking again about how little in the past

By Bill Marler

/ 5 Aug 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

Comment period extended for Salmonella in NRTE breaded stuffed chicken products

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the comment period on the proposed determination titled Salmonella in Not-Ready-To-Eat Breaded Stuffed Chicken Products. Published on April 28, 2023,

By News Desk

/ 24 Jul 2023

Comment period extended for Salmonella in NRTE breaded stuffed chicken products

Diluting the role of USDA veterinarians is a mistake according to those on the job at FSIS

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service plans to dilute the role of veterinarians in animal slaughter. It is a change made during a persistent and severe national DVM

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Jul 2023

Diluting the role of USDA veterinarians is a mistake according to those on the job at FSIS

No reduction in human illnesses from poultry-caused Salmonella

“While the prevalence of Salmonella contamination in regulated poultry products has decreased by more than 50 percent in recent years, there has not been a reduction in human illnesses attributable

By News Desk

/ 2 Jul 2023

No reduction in human illnesses from poultry-caused Salmonella

Activists mail Biden about downer pigs

Pigs often become non-ambulatory “because of a temporary metabolic condition characterized by profound fatigue” according to a 2019 ruling by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The condition

By Dan Flynn

/ 2 Jul 2023

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Jerome Yoon of the FSIS

Jerome Yoon has been with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service for just over one year, serving as branch chief for the Office of Management’s (OM) Safety &

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

/ 6 Jun 2023

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Jerome Yoon of the FSIS

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FSIS

USDA investigated six outbreaks in FY 2023; none resulted in recalls or public warnings

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Ciarra Toomey

Amos Miller exits federal court in 2023 as the third time is the charm

Brashears: Beating salmonella in poultry needs to focus on serotypes causing human illness with improved data

Labeling lab-grown meat and poultry isn’t likely to be easy

The top 3 food safety agencies work in collaboration on foodborne illness sources

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

Comment period extended for Salmonella in NRTE breaded stuffed chicken products

Diluting the role of USDA veterinarians is a mistake according to those on the job at FSIS

No reduction in human illnesses from poultry-caused Salmonella

Activists mail Biden about downer pigs

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Jerome Yoon of the FSIS

Your Support Protects Public Health