Government Agencies

NEA and AVA step up food safety checks during festive season

The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) are to step up checks on food sites during the holiday season. The agencies told all operators

By News Desk

/ 12 Dec 2018

NEA and AVA step up food safety checks during festive season

Stakeholders and lobbyists leave tracks at FSIS during October

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top two food safety officials met ten times with stakeholders and lobbyists over 21 days in October, according to the recently issued public

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 Dec 2018

Stakeholders and lobbyists leave tracks at FSIS during October

More romaine victims reported — FDA says look to industry for change; industry says additional study needed

2:30 p.m. CLARIFIED CONTENT Dec. 7, 2018 — The FDA says shipping records show at least 10 distributors, 11 farms and 12 growers in the romaine lettuce supply chain

By Coral Beach

/ 7 Dec 2018

More romaine victims reported — FDA says look to industry for change; industry says additional study needed

Senate likely to vote soon on Brashears as USDA’s top food safety official

The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry late Wednesday voted to favorably report the nomination of Mindy Brashears to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety. Her nomination

By Dan Flynn

/ 6 Dec 2018

Senate likely to vote soon on Brashears as USDA’s top food safety official

After years of documented Listeria contamination, company closes

Owners of a Michigan food company have agreed that they will not reopen their business, Saranac Brand Foods Inc., which had repeatedly been found to be contaminated with potentially deadly

By News Desk

/ 3 Dec 2018

Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP

Hundreds sicken and hospitalized, dozens with kidney failure and 7 deaths from romaine in the last 12 months in the U.S. and Canada and the response from industry and

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Nov 2018

FSA food standards review highlights failures

Food standards delivery in the United Kingdom is hampered by inadequate resources and an out of date approach to regulation, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The agency reviewed

By Joe Whitworth

/ 30 Nov 2018

FSA food standards review highlights failures

Brashears and two others for top USDA jobs clear nomination hearing

Were it not for rules prohibiting a committee vote on the same day as the nomination hearing, the appointment of Mindy Brashears as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety

By Dan Flynn

/ 29 Nov 2018

Brashears and two others for top USDA jobs clear nomination hearing

No plan for sanctions against Poland as Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs expands

The European Commission says that no measures against Poland are envisioned “for the time being” as a Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs continues to grow. Almost 1,500 people have

By Joe Whitworth

/ 28 Nov 2018

No plan for sanctions against Poland as Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs expands

3-state recruitment drive underway for USDA meat and poultry inspectors

Federal job recruiters are in cattle country this week and next looking for prospective food safety inspectors in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food

By News Desk

/ 27 Nov 2018

3-state recruitment drive underway for USDA meat and poultry inspectors

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Gregory McDermott of FSIS

Contributed Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

/ 26 Nov 2018

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Gregory McDermott of FSIS

American Statistical Association wants Congress to demand details on USDA plan for research service

Opinion The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s reorganization plan, which would relocate a key agricultural research agency outside Washington, DC, has drawn increasing criticism from those who know

By Guest Contributor

/ 25 Nov 2018

American Statistical Association wants Congress to demand details on USDA plan for research service

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Government Agencies

NEA and AVA step up food safety checks during festive season

Stakeholders and lobbyists leave tracks at FSIS during October

More romaine victims reported — FDA says look to industry for change; industry says additional study needed

Senate likely to vote soon on Brashears as USDA’s top food safety official

After years of documented Listeria contamination, company closes

Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP

FSA food standards review highlights failures

Brashears and two others for top USDA jobs clear nomination hearing

No plan for sanctions against Poland as Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs expands

3-state recruitment drive underway for USDA meat and poultry inspectors

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Gregory McDermott of FSIS

American Statistical Association wants Congress to demand details on USDA plan for research service

Your Support Protects Public Health