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Letter to the Editor: USDA move to outsource inspections is recipe for disaster

By Guest Contributor on January 17, 2020
Opinion

Dear Editor,

I am submitting this letter in response to Dan Flynn’s earlier piece regarding pork inspection line speeds.

The federal government’s decision to put pork producers in charge of their own food safety…
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What’s behind the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System?

By Chuck Jolley on January 10, 2020
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The Hill, a Washington-based news publication, recently published a story about the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System (NSIS), an outgrowth of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) HACCP-Based…
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Tyson lost $2.5 million because, they say, FSIS failed to properly inspect hogs

By Dan Flynn on May 17, 2019

Dr. Yolanda Thomspon was the USDA inspector on duty for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) at the Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. plant in Storm Lake, IA, on March 26, 2018.

Her actions that…
Continue Reading Tyson lost $2.5 million because, they say, FSIS failed to properly inspect hogs

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Inspection, routine E. coli tests spark recall of beef ground in grocery store

By News Desk on March 20, 2019

An Illinois grocery store is recalling 54 pounds of ground beef because of test results following routine product sampling by inspectors on March 14, according to a recall notice posted March 19 by the USDA’s…

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Living a lie behind a miniskirt of science — free speech can be medicinal

By John Munsell on February 13, 2019
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At the time FSIS required all federal plants to implement HACCP, our family-owned slaughter/processing plant had been in existence for 49 years, 24 years of which I had been the manager. Thus, I realized…
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It was business as usual on first business day of partial government shutdown

By Dan Flynn on December 27, 2018

Everyone returning to work early Wednesday at Colorado’s big JBS beef plant had to contend with some pretty cold weather, but they did not have any concerns about whether USDA inspectors would be on hand.
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Letter to the Editor: USDA should rethink pork line speed plan

By Food Safety News Readers on January 27, 2018

On Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a proposed rule that would lift current caps on line speeds in pork processing plants and reduce federal oversight in these facilities.

The proposed rule is…
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Former USDA officials say feds critically short of veterinarians

By Cookson Beecher on August 21, 2017

Sometimes when a door swings open, opportunity for change has the chance to enter.

That’s what some members of the National Association of Federal Veterinarians are hoping will happen now that two top food safety…
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Rosalinda Salinas-Castro of FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on August 14, 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, republished here with permission.

Rosalinda Salinas-Castro loves the work

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Canada-U.S. in talks about inspection system equivalencies

By News Desk on August 14, 2017

Audits of Canada’s meat, poultry, and egg inspections conducted in September 2016 and written up in a report in April this year are now getting attention.

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service sent a…
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