Homestead Pasta Company, based in San Francisco, has issued a recall of 144,633 pounds of frozen beef, turkey, and chicken tamale products.
The recall was announced after the Food
“Dual Jurisdiction,” for those who may not know, generally describes a processing plant where more than one product line is being produced, and some of the facility’s products fall
Number 8 in our list of the top 17 food safety news stories of 2010 is the frequency–or infrequency–of food inspections in the United States.
The headlines said
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Wednesday announced new measures aimed at ensuring the humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle at FSIS-inspected
More than 27 million pounds of meat and poultry were recalled in 2010 by processors regulated by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Meat and poultry recalls often
In one of its many outreach programs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently teamed up with The Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES) in Washington, D.C. to bring food
I have read with some interest recent discussions in this space of the FSIS performance standards system and its relationship with the Supreme Beef litigation of a decade ago. Such
Dr. Dean Wyatt, the Food Safety and Inspection Service veterinarian who blew the whistle on the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ignoring humane treatment and food safety violations, succumbed
The Pastime Lakes Dairy located near Lakeview, CA apparently did not get the memo.
Here’s the information Pastime missed:
“Cattle must not be slaughtered for human consumption within 4
The Obama Administration’s top food safety officials appear to be meeting more often with people outside the federal government than they did earlier in their tenure.
The Food Safety
Dan Flynn’s “Inspected by USDA” in Food Safety News last month was a particularly thought-provoking editorial, to which I have some responses.
USDA’s two legal losses stemming from
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert for various meat and poultry products prepared by a Brooklyn, NY