The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday issued draft guidelines intended to help meat and poultry firms that wish to implement in-plant video monitoring, a tool that has been lauded
A former small-scale meat plant owner turned activist yesterday hailed an announcement that federal inspectors testing ground beef samples for E. coli will now try to verify where the meat
In her first speech as Under Secretary for Food Safety at U.S. Department of Agriculture, the government’s highest ranking position in food safety, Elisabeth Hagen yesterday told an
September is Food Safety Month. Accordingly, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that it has launched Spanish language versions of its Ask Karen (Pregúntele a Karen) service
The Agriculture Department announced this week that its Food Safety and Inspection Service will host a red meat mobile slaughter unit information session Sept. 9. The information session, which is
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack encouraged schools throughout the country to participate in the Healthier US School Challenge this week. USDA created this initiative to recognize schools that that maintain a
It might exist.
But I have not seen any informed speculation on why President Obama opted to make a controversial “recess” appointment of Dr. Elisabeth Hagen as the new Under
President Obama announced yesterday his intent to circumvent the Senate and recess appoint Dr. Elisabeth Hagen to be Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” — Mark Twain
If only Mark Twain were alive today,
This week, federal regulators ordered Murray’s Chicken to cease processing at its South Fallsburg, NY poultry plant.
Steve Gold, Murray’s vice president of sales and marketing, said the
On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that the agency is now accepting nominations for new members for the National Advisory Committee
A reestablished charter and 2010-2012 membership for the National Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection was announced Thursday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
The food safety advisory group is attached