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
Continue Reading Trump’s order to keep meat plants open gives big business a loophole
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
Continue Reading Meat inspection petition with 216,000 signatures given to FSA
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
Continue Reading Letter to The Editor: Better food safety through science, not emotions
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
Continue Reading EU mulls stronger meat, shellfish inspection regs; businesses push back
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
Continue Reading Faces of Food Safety: Meet Ahman Jilani of FSIS
Canada’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,
Continue Reading Canadian Union Says CFIA Budget Cuts Mean Fewer Meat Plant Inspections
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
Continue Reading What U.S. Can Learn From Other Countries About Meat, Poultry Inspection
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
Continue Reading Prosecutions for Falsely Using USDA’s Stamp of Inspection Don’t Come Easy
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
Continue Reading New Zealand Official: Blocked Beef in 2012 Unrelated to Private Meat Inspectors
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
Continue Reading Food & Water Watch Questions USDA Assessment of Australian Meat-Inspection System
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.
Continue Reading Congress Passes Bill to Avert Meat Inspector Furloughs
