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And . . . What role does pathogen testing play in true HACCP?

By John Munsell on June 1, 2020
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This is a followup on my response to Brianna Leach’s opinion essay published by Food Safety News on May 26. My initial response focused on HACCP. In order for Part Two to make sense,…
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Living a lie behind a miniskirt of science — free speech can be medicinal

By John Munsell on February 13, 2019
Opinion

At the time FSIS required all federal plants to implement HACCP, our family-owned slaughter/processing plant had been in existence for 49 years, 24 years of which I had been the manager. Thus, I realized…
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Check Murano’s record again before naming Ag Secretary

By John Munsell on December 29, 2016

I am writing this in response to the article appearing in Food Safety News on Dec. 27 regarding Elsa Murano’s being considered for Secretary of Agriculture. The article refers to Murano’s previous service as the…
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FSIS Comes Full Circle With Grinder Logs and Faster Tracebacks to the Source

By Dan Flynn on August 14, 2014

It was not so long ago that USDA meat inspectors and their supervisors didn’t even want to hear it. Ground beef from a small Miles City, MT, processor was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, but…
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Letter From The Editor: Test Run for New FSIS Traceback Policy

By Dan Flynn on January 27, 2013

Troy and Sterling Heights are a pair of hardscrabble Michigan towns both about 20 miles north of Detroit now dealing with a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. Each has a retail meat market that since Thursday first …
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Santa Claus Wants To Know: Who’s Been Naughty & Nice?

By News Desk on December 24, 2012

Editor’s Note: It’s time to put out the milk and cookies for Santa Claus and read the Food Safety News Naughty and Nice List for 2012. This is the fourth N&N list we’ve prepared. Our …
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The ‘Meatpacking Maverick’ and USDA’s New Traceback Policy

By Helena Bottemiller on May 8, 2012

If you follow food safety policy, there’s a good chance that when you think of traceback, you think of John Munsell. Once dubbed the “meatpacking maverick,” Munsell has been extremely critical of the fact that…

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Off to a Rocky Start

By John Munsell on October 26, 2011

Editor’s note: Last week we concluded a series by John Munsell that explained how his small meat plant in Miles City, MT, ran afoul of USDA’s meat inspection practices. John asked us to post one …

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E. Coli Confession: Part 9

By John Munsell on October 19, 2011

Editor’s Note: This is the ninth and final installment in a series written by John Munsell of Miles City, MT, who explains how the small meat plant his family owned for 59 years ran afoul …

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E. Coli Confession: Part 8

By John Munsell on October 18, 2011

Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment in a series written by John Munsell of Miles City, MT, who explains how the small meat plant his family owned for 59 years ran afoul of USDA’s …

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