All the lobbyists billing their respective and mostly meat industry clients made the point one more time Monday — they do not want fees replacing what the taxpayers now ante up
The USDA news release dated April 5, 2011, and reported in Food Safety News April 6 by Helena Bottemiller, had this for a headline:
USDA Announces Proposed Test and Hold
The food industry is telling Congress it is all for food safety, it just does not want to pay for it.
No less than 17 food industry organizations signed on
Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg made her case for upping resources at FDA for fiscal year 2012 before a House appropriations committee on Friday,
When restaurateurs receive notice of an upcoming health inspection, they usually react by getting out the mop and the disinfectant, not the number for the local police department.
But restaurant
U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong made her annual presentation to the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on appropriations
To get back into compliance with its own state code, and without raising fees, Iowa is going with a risk-based restaurant inspection system beginning April 1. The state can no
During the past week, Food Safety News brought readers the details on the proposal for food safety funding in President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget.
Helena Bottemiller, our capitol
Iowa’s 100 million laying hens are now coming in for “aggressive” attention, state Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey says.
In remarks to update legislators on the aftermath of last
Supporters of small family farms and locally grown food in Oregon are backing three bills–the Farm Direct Bill, the Family Farm Act, and HB 2872–that address poultry processing.
Public health inspectors observed several potential food safety problems at a Pacific Northwest sprouts growing facility, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration 483 report.
Clover sprouts produced