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Updated — Executive Order to meat Industry: No more closures

By Dan Flynn on April 28, 2020

Updated content throughout — President Donald J. Trump has by Executive Order placed the American meat industry under the Defense Production Act to prevent meat shortages by keeping meat processing plants open.

The Defense Production…
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Meat sector review identifies areas for improvement

By Joe Whitworth on October 15, 2018

A review of meat processing plants in the United Kingdom following a number of high-profile issues has spurred a series of recommendations to improve the industry.

Suggestions in the draft review will be considered at…
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FSIS Seeks Input from NACMPI on Veal Safety

By News Desk on December 19, 2012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that it will host a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection focused on veal safety in January. It has…
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Publisher’s Platform: Putting Me Out the Beef Business

By Bill Marler on March 18, 2012

I was sitting in my office in Seattle watching the snowfall on this St. Patrick’s Day, while working on one of the latest food disasters, when the staff at Food Safety News reminded me that…

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Meat Industry Again Asks for Delay on Non-O157 Policy

By Helena Bottemiller on December 13, 2011

Adding to the pressure facing federal food safety officials, a coalition of meat industry groups, both domestic and international, wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack late last week urging delay in implementing the Food Safety…

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Why the Meat Industry Sells Salmonella

By Michele Simon on August 9, 2011

As a lawyer who writes about food policy, one of my biggest frustrations is how reporters often get the law wrong, or omit critical pieces of information.

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Last week the latest massive food safety recall…
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Letter from the Editor: Antitrust

By Dan Flynn on August 29, 2010

As the joint DOJ/USDA workshop on antitrust issues in the meat industry got underway in Fort Collins, CO Friday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder said something that caught my attention.

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Meat Industry AntiTrust Workshop Friday in CO

By Dan Flynn on August 24, 2010

Early Sunday morning in Fort Collins, CO, police got to try out their tear gas and mobile field-in-force tactics after fights broke out after a Bohemian Nights concert. Before the riot was over, fires were…

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Meat Industry Adds to Hall of Fame

By Dan Flynn on July 12, 2010

Being only the second group named, several more of this year’s inductees to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame are deceased legends from a time when their names alone made the public feel safe about…

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Questioning the Search for More Strains of E. coli

By Chuck Jolley on June 25, 2010

Here is an easy case to make: The pursuit of E. coli O157:H7 and its total eradication has been the holy grail of the meat industry since at least the infamous 1993 Jack in the…

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