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 the 20,446 pounds of “fully cooked chicken skewer items” before the recall notice was posted
Continue Reading More than 10 tons of chicken kabobs recalled for Listeria

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 she does for FSIS and has devoted 18 years of her life to the Agency.


Continue Reading Faces of Food Safety: Meet Rosalinda Salinas-Castro of FSIS

brazilfederalpolice_406x250None 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 additional pathogen testing of all shipments of raw and ready-to-eat beef products from Brazil once
Continue Reading USDA beefs up scrutiny of Brazilian beef amid bribery scandal

Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Michael Partridge is a Consumer Safety Inspector (CSI) serving in the Office of Field Operations (OFO) in the Philadelphia district of the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service.

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Continue Reading Faces of Food Safety: Meet Michael Partridge of the USDA

Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Sabrina King is an enforcement, investigations and analysis officer (EIAO), serving the Office of Field Operations (OFO) in the Atlanta district. As an EIAO, King performs food safety assessments
Continue Reading Faces of Food Safety: Meet Sabrina King of the USDA

The nation’s meat inspectors – or at least those “who conduct regulatory verification activities outdoors” – are being told how to protect themselves from mosquito-borne diseases. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspection program personnel (IPP) got instructions Wednesday on how to protect themselves from mosquito bites in an
Continue Reading USDA tells staff to defend against mosquito-borne diseases