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Trump’s order to keep meat plants open gives big business a loophole

By Center for Science in the Public Interest on April 30, 2020
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President Trump’s executive order keeping meat plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic is a further threat to the health of the women and men who produce our food. The order would gut any incentive…
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Meat inspection petition with 216,000 signatures given to FSA

By Joe Whitworth on February 15, 2020

A union in the United Kingdom has submitted a petition on meat inspections, signed by more than 216,000 people, to the Food Standards Agency.

Steve Nash, a consumer advisor on E. coli O157, Unison national…
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Letter to The Editor: Better food safety through science, not emotions 

By Food Safety News Readers on July 1, 2019
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When the Washington Post, members of Congress, and 35 other organizations [1] raised concerns about a proposed modernization of a food safety and inspection process, we needed to provide a…
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EU mulls stronger meat, shellfish inspection regs; businesses push back

By Joe Whitworth on October 16, 2018

The European Commission is looking at revising rules for checks on meat and shellfish.

Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections could be performed under the responsibility of the official veterinarians instead of being done or supervised by…
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Ahman Jilani of FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 13, 2017

Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service.

Dr. Ahmad Jilani is a supervisory public health veterinarian…
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Canadian Union Says CFIA Budget Cuts Mean Fewer Meat Plant Inspections

By News Desk on April 1, 2015

national flag of canada on a black & white cloudy backgroundCanada’s food safety agency has cut back on inspections of certain meat plants and that threatens food safety, the national president of the inspectors union said on Tuesday. At a press conference in Edmonton,…
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What U.S. Can Learn From Other Countries About Meat, Poultry Inspection

By Lydia Zuraw on October 21, 2014

As the new Modernization of Poultry Inspection rule went into effect Monday, the Pew Charitable Trusts and Center for Science in the Public Interest released their review of global meat and poultry inspection systems. They…
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Prosecutions for Falsely Using USDA’s Stamp of Inspection Don’t Come Easy

By Dan Flynn on March 27, 2014

Paul and Kelly Rosberg, who once owned Nebraska’s Finest Meats in Randolph, NE, put up a vigorous defense for many months against charges that they had sold to Omaha Public Schools 2,600 pounds of ground…
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New Zealand Official: Blocked Beef in 2012 Unrelated to Private Meat Inspectors

By Dan Flynn on February 25, 2014

The employment of some private meat inspectors in New Zealand had nothing to do with seven containers of beef exported to the United States in 2012 that USDA turned away, according to an official with…
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Food & Water Watch Questions USDA Assessment of Australian Meat-Inspection System

By News Desk on October 23, 2013

Consumer rights group Food & Water Watch has expressed concern in a new letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2011 decision to reaffirm equivalency status to the meat-inspection systems…
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Congress Passes Bill to Avert Meat Inspector Furloughs

By Gretchen Goetz on March 22, 2013

The House on Thursday passed a continuing resolution that will head off furloughs for U.S. meat inspectors that would have taken place this summer as a result of the sequester. The measure, introduced by Sens.…
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