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
Continue Reading Court dismisses appeal against FSA in meat inspection case
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
Continue Reading African food safety event hailed as ‘just the beginning’
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
Continue Reading Certain meat sold online was not inspected; USDA warns public not to eat it
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
