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Court dismisses appeal against FSA in meat inspection case

By Joe Whitworth on February 4, 2022

A long-running legal case involving the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and a meat business has been settled by the Supreme Court.

Cleveland Meat Company (CMC), which stopped trading in 2017, and the Association of Independent…
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African food safety event hailed as ‘just the beginning’

By Joe Whitworth on November 26, 2021

Experts have called for debates at a conference on food safety in Africa to be the “beginning of a journey” during their concluding remarks.

Blaise Ouattara, food safety and quality officer at the FAO regional…
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Certain meat sold online was not inspected; USDA warns public not to eat it

By News Desk on March 21, 2021

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is warning the public to not eat certain beef and lamb products because they were produced by One Meat Corp., doing business as Eastern…
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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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