A proposal by conservative House Republicans to cut and freeze non-defense discretionary spending from 2012 to 2021 would have a major impact on food safety oversight, according to the Center
Any time something big happens, there are ramifications. With the President’s signature this week, the biggest shake up in food safety in 70 years became reality.
But that reality
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles from CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal on the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
“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 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility left $1 billion on the table when it opted not to recommend Congress charge the meat and poultry industry for inspection service.
Co-chairs Erskine
I was standing outside a John Morrell plant waiting for my candidate, who was campaigning inside, when I first heard it. It was such a simple and efficient food safety
Significant violations of federal food regulations were found during an inspection of a food commodity warehouse owned by the Quinault Indian Nation located on Washington state’s Pacific Coast.
The
Meat&Poultry magazine reported “AIB International on Sept. 23 issued a statement saying that while it conducted its GMP inspection in three of six in-shell egg grading/sorting facilities
Flies “too numerous to count,” rodents, wild birds, maggots, and open piles of manure four to eight feet high were among the observations released by the U.S. Food and
Texas has a whole bunch of unlicensed food manufacturing businesses in it.
Since early 2009 when it was disclosed that the Peanut Corporation of America processing plant in Plainview, TX