Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Iowa congressional candidate Christie Vilsack, who have been married for almost 40 years, are publicly at odds over a controversial plan to expand a semi-privatized
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it will soon begin tracing meat contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 back to the source before illnesses are linked to the
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is appropriately handling industry appeals of its humane handling enforcement actions, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’
ABC’s Jim Avila, the man who so adroitly ended the expected shelf life of lean, finely textured beef when failed TV chef Jamie Oliver and an award-winning but factually
Federal meat safety officials are stepping up efforts to prevent meat with illegal levels of drugs or other chemicals from entering the food supply.
The new plan – unveiled Monday by
Below is the text of a blog entry, “Setting the Record Straight on the Proposed Chicken Inspection Rule” by USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator Alfred Almanza. It was
If you listen to both critics and proponents of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture proposal to expand a pilot poultry inspection program, you might wonder if they’re
The USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a notice last week that gives its inspection personnel specific instructions on how to randomly select the beef trimmings to
The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF), an interagency committee with outside experts, held a meeting Wednesday (via conference call) to discuss ground beef purchasing requirements for
UPDATE: —USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made contact with Sysco Seattle Inc. late Saturday, turning what had been rare public health alert into a more routine recall.
Part II of a conversation with our nation’s highest ranking food safety official, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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A conversation with our nation’s highest ranking food safety official, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the agency’s