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
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3-state recruitment drive underway for USDA meat and poultry inspectors
Federal job recruiters are in cattle country this week and next looking for prospective food safety inspectors in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) currently employs
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Paul Moede of FSIS
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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.
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Janice Cones of FSIS
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
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Kathleen McAnally of FSIS
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.
Kathleen
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More than 10 tons of chicken kabobs recalled for Listeria
A Canadian company is recalling more than 20,000 pounds of chicken skewer products from U.S. stores because American officials found Listeria monocytogenes during a routine foreign shipment inspection.
Expresco Foods Inc. of Montréal, Québec, distributed
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Rosalinda Salinas-Castro of FSIS
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
Faces of food safety: Meet Cedric Dial of the FSIS
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Cedric Dial, a consumer safety
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Rita Hurst of the FSIS
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.
Rita Hurst has worked for FSIS for 33 years.
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Kimberly Johnson of FSIS
Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Kimberly Johnson is a Consumer Safety Inspector (CSI) serving in the Office of Field
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USDA beefs up scrutiny of Brazilian beef amid bribery scandal
None of the slaughter or processing facilities targeted by the Federal Police in Brazil have shipped meat products to the United States, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Nevertheless, FSIS immediately instituted
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