A proposal to reform poultry inspection that would shift quality and deflect oversight away from U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors toward the companies processing the birds has come under
In a move that could help shoppers make more informed choices, the nutrition fact labels seen on most processed foods must now also be on all packages of raw ground
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) began rolling out Twitter feeds to provide consumers with alerts about food recalls and other
USDA recently disclosed criminal, civil, and administrative actions taken to enforce the federal meat and poultry inspection acts during the last three months of last year.
In a 47-page enforcement
This commentary was contributed jointly by John Munsell and Dr. Richard Raymond.
Last week, James H. Hodges, Executive Vice-President at the American Meat Institute (AMI), ostensibly penned an opinion piece
In a story last summer for Food Safety News, I looked to see if the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recalls were biased
AA Meat Products Corporation of Maywood, CA is recalling an undetermined amount of meat and poultry that may not have been federally inspected, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
The biggest Matanza in the world is back on track, set for February 25 in Belen, NM.
Sponsored by the Valencia County Hispano Chamber of Commerce, the 12th Annual Matanza
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new, groundbreaking non-O157 E. coli policy, which classifies six new strains as adulterants and requires testing, will become effective 90 days later than
Philip Derfler, deputy administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, touted the new proposed rule on poultry inspection last week at a Food
Federal regulators plan to trim the fat on poultry inspection costs in the U.S. by concentrating on measures proven to boost food safety and cutting out excessive steps, the
Food Safety News, citing the Hagstrom Report newsletter, said on Jan. 14 that the Obama Administration may be considering a plan to merge the functions of food safety as currently