Last week, organizations representing consumers and farm workers convened in Washington, D.C., to speak with members of Congress and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials about the threat they
Many people are wondering why 8.7 million pounds of meat processed by Rancho Feeding Corporation in Petaluma, CA, were recalled and the slaughterhouse subsequently closed. Could it be an
Meat imported from Canada is being recalled for lacking full USDA inspection, the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service announced late Saturday. The meat products are from the Ontario-based
Members of Congress, and the reporters who cover them, love to be in the know, and, when they do not have that insider information, they feel a bit weak and
Nutriom LLC of Lacey, WA, is recalling approximately 226,710 pounds of processed egg products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety
As a winter storm threatens to blanket the East Coast with up to 18 inches of snow today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS)
Rancho Feeding Corp. of Petaluma, CA, the beef producer that recalled 8.7 million pounds of meat on Saturday, has halted operations as personnel attempt to help locate any remaining
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) intends to implement a sweeping and total change to its food safety program by drastically modifying carcass-by-carcass
Country-of-origin labeling (COOL) is not a food safety issue. Except when it is. The law requires that much of our food be labeled with its source country, but the requirement
At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all
I am betting your response to the headline was the same as when I read the news: HUH? The proposed Farm Bill has finally gathered the bicameral and bipartisan support