The Chilean chicken recall for dioxin contamination expanded Thursday, with the amount being held at the U.S. border growing from 126,000 to 155,595 pounds. Still, some of
Food safety experts are scratching their heads after a Washington Post article suggested last week that certain chemicals used in poultry processing might be masking the presence of Salmonella. It’
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Hayes Scott has postponed until Aug. 8 the bond hearing to determine how much the Humane Society of the United States and other plaintiffs should
A Kansas-based company is recalling 50,100 pounds of ground beef because it may be contaminated with E. coli. National Beef Packing Company of Liberal, KS issued a voluntary recall
Nearly 200,000 pounds of Chilean chicken is being recalled in the United States for dioxins only because the levels found violate Chile’s domestic limits, according to federal food
USDA’s meat inspectors are stepping up enforcement for humane treatment of animals, especially by smaller plants. In its last quarterly enforcement report for the second quarter of the federal
Fines and probationary sentences for selling uninspected meat products top the enforcement report for the last quarter of enforcement activity by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS). USDA’
While the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has been requiring meat and poultry plants use Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, or HACCP, systems
Everybody in the federal government knows that if you have bad news to announce, the best time to release it is on a Friday afternoon after most in Congress are
In the years since man landed on the Moon, there been one solution whenever there has been a true food safety crisis on Earth: HASSUP. It is the Mount Rushmore
The award for the wittiest reaction to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to label such products as “mechanically tenderized top sirloin” easily goes to the industry’s
The long-stalled new U.S. Department of Agriculture rule to require labeling mechanically-tenderized beef is back on the tracks. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published the rule