To remedy what the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently called “a widespread lack of understanding” in validating Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems for meat processors
Discussion on the link between antibiotic resistance in humans and the routine, subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food animal production rolls on. For the past several weeks, congressional staff working
Top meat industry groups held briefings on Capitol Hill Tuesday defending the use of antibiotics as a critical tool for animal health.
The briefings come two weeks after CBS Evening
Meat industry groups are bracing for consumer backlash from a much-anticipated CBS Evening News series on antibiotic use in food animal production, scheduled to air this week after experiencing several
PART II: More of our conversation with John Munsell, the small meat processor who blew the whistle on the largest meat recall in American history. See Part I of the
PART I: An Introduction to John Munsell, the ‘meatpacking
maverick,’ who blew the whistle on the largest meat recall in American
history.
John Munsell, dubbed the “meatpacking maverick” by Mother
More Meat Industry Dissembling on E. coli
On October 3, 2009, the New York Times published a lengthy and compelling story about Stephanie Smith and the E. coli O157:H7
Two and half weeks before The New York Times put the beef industry’s safety flaws under a microscope, the meat industry had renewed its campaign for beef carcass irradiation