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Dueling inspection systems produce another round of competing data

By Dan Flynn on February 23, 2021

For the past quarter-century, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has run two options for inspecting hogs. The HACCP-based Inspection Model Project or HIMP evolved into the New Swine   Inspection System or NSIS pilot in…
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Union challenge to new swine inspections for market hogs might be dismissed

By Dan Flynn on January 9, 2020

A federal judge in St. Paul is scheduled, on Jan. 27, to consider the government’s motion to dismiss a last-ditch attempt to stop the modernization of swine inspection procedures.

Unions led by the United Food…
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Real deadline for new hog slaughter inspection rule might be Sept. 30

By Dan Flynn on August 5, 2019

USDA’s new swine slaughter inspection system has been 22 years in the making. And if the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) wants to avoid further delay, it likely must act this month or next…
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Poultry line speed waivers possible if producers meet new criteria

By Dan Flynn on October 1, 2018

To get a “speed waiver” to run an “evisceration line” at up to 175 birds per minute, rather than the current 140 bpm, is going to require poultry businesses to jump through a few more…
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OMB approves HIMP swine slaughter rule; industry pleased

By News Desk on January 16, 2018

Changes to how pork slaughter plants could be regulated are going forward after a mere 21 years in the making. President Donald Trump’s Administration has approved a final rule that had its origin during President…
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Sixty Democrats ask Vilsack to delay new hog slaughter rule

By Dan Flynn on January 20, 2016

Sixty liberal and mostly urban congressional Democrats have weighed in with their opinions about making bacon, telling the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to further delay expansion of the 20-year old hog Hazard Analysis and Critical…
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Food Safety Regulatory Forecast for 2016

By Lydia Zuraw on January 1, 2016

calendar2016_406x250It’s impossible to say what will be the big food safety story of 2016. The ultimate unpredictable is what foodborne outbreaks will dominate the headlines and how they may impact policy decisions. But we’ve done…
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Retired USDA Inspectors Share Concerns About HIMP Project

By Carey Gillam on November 16, 2015

Joe Ferguson says he just couldn’t take it any longer. The former inspector for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) spent more than 23 years monitoring operations inside pork…
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Judge Dismisses Challenge to USDA Poultry Inspection Rule

By Dan Flynn on February 12, 2015

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit Food & Water Watch Inc. and two of its members filed last fall against U.S. Secretary of…
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Q&A with Ted Genoways on Food Safety in Pork Processing, Part 2

By James Andrews on February 6, 2015

(This is Part 2 of an interview with journalist and author Ted Genoways. Part 1 is here.) Ted Genoways is the author of “The Chain: Farm, Factory and the Fate of Our Food,” a…
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