Minnesota’s Rochester Meat Co. has recalled more than 6 tons pounds of pork sausage products because of misbranding, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The pork sausage contains
Continue Reading Pork sausage recalled; MSG not listed as ingredient on label
Any new meat and poultry product labeling regulations that are issued next year by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will have a uniform compliance date of Jan. 1, 2020.
FSIS has periodically set
Continue Reading New compliance date for meat, poultry labeling is 01/01/2020
With final rules on the Nutrition Facts label published, consumers soon will see an updated label on food packages that makes the calories and serving sizes of products easier to see and that gives them
Continue Reading Making sure ‘healthy’ means what it says on food packages
UPDATE: Additional cooking instructions provided by FSIS after this story was posted. The 6.2 billion servings of mechanically tenderized beef roasts and steaks consumed annually by Americans might be a little safer because of labeling
Continue Reading UPDATED: New labels, instructions for tenderized beef roll out today
The White House has released its “Current Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” for fall 2015, which provides an overview of the Obama administration’s regulatory plans for the coming year.
Continue Reading White House Releases Fall 2015 Regulatory Plan
A report by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) published Monday states that “process labels” for food should only be mandated when the product has been scientifically demonstrated to harm human health. Whether
Continue Reading Report: Mandate Food Process Labels Only if Product is Harmful
Last week, the White House released its “Current Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” for spring 2015. 
As with previous agendas for the Food and Drug Administration, finalizing the major
Continue Reading White House Releases Spring 2015 Regulatory Plan
The finalized labeling requirements for mechanically tenderized beef were released Wednesday and will go into effect in May 2016. Under the new rule, raw or partially cooked beef products must bear labels that state that
Continue Reading Mechanically Tenderized Beef Label Goes Into Effect May 2016
While appearing before the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA will work to introduce labels for mechanically tenderized beef within the next two years. New labeling laws are implemented
Continue Reading USDA May Move Mechanically Tenderized Beef Labeling to 2016
Oregon’s automatic recount of Measure 92, which would require labeling of some foods with genetically engineered ingredients, is now underway. Election officials in the state’s 36 counties have until Dec. 12 to finish their hand
Continue Reading Close Vote on Oregon GE-Labeling Initiative Prompts Automatic Recount
