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Project looks at how to modernize meat inspection

By Joe Whitworth on June 3, 2022

New technology could bring benefits to meat inspection in the United Kingdom but there are still issues to overcome, according to a report.

A project assessed the feasibility of using sensor technologies and advanced data…
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet David Vasquez of the FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on November 29, 2021
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David Vasquez, supervisory consumer safety inspector (SCSI) at Establishment (Est.) M675 in Hereford, Texas, has been with FSIS for 28 years. He supervises 20 food inspectors (FI), 4 consumer safety inspectors (CSI) and 2…
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Me thinks the lady doth protest too much — and is a Vegan

By Dr. Richard Raymond on May 27, 2020
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On May 26, Food Safety News published an article written by law student Brianna Leach titled “The meat industry’s grip on government—time for an overhaul?”

If this essay by a law student is “the…
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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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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Christina Hastings of the FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on January 20, 2020

Christina Hastings, a relief consumer safety inspector (CSI) in the Raleigh district, exemplifies all of FSIS’ core values — Accountable, Collaborative, Empowered and Solutions-Oriented, and she puts them into practice each day she performs her…
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Nicole Suggs of FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on August 26, 2019
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Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here with permission.

Nicole Suggs is an import…
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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…
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3-state recruitment drive underway for USDA meat and poultry inspectors

By News Desk on November 27, 2018

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

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on October 2, 2018
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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.

Keeping the public safe…

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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Janice Cones of FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on July 24, 2018
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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 …
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