As part of our ongoing expert Q&A series, a conversation with Joe Cloud who co-owns a small USDA-inspected abattoir with Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm, The Omnivore’s
Last Saturday morning a worker’s legs were severed at the Vernon, California-based Jobbers Meat Packing Corporation in an accident.
He was taken to the hospital in critical condition and
A Canadian judge has decided six months of house arrest is sufficient penalty for violations of both the federal Meat Inspection Act and the Health of Animals Act.
Ontario Judge
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says illnesses from E. coli O157:H7 fell to a five-year low in the U.S. last year. CDC attributed the improvement
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published its analysis of feed and food samples this week. The analysis found that eight percent of the samples contained excessive levels of dioxins.
Guilty pleas to violating Canada’s Meat Inspection Act have now led to individual and corporate fines totaling $125,000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports.
Cameron Leth and Wheatland
Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) introduced a bill yesterday to overhaul the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) protocol for tracing contaminated meat back to the source to protect public health
Meat is hitting the proverbial fan in Canada.
It seems Canadians are taking exception to having meat for domestic consumption coming in for less scrutiny than any product bound for
Canadians are wondering if meat from the United States is safe after learning 70 truckloads have evaded border inspections since January. That’s how many truckloads the Windsor Star newspaper
Many consumers associate organic food production with food safety. While there is an abundance of persuasive arguments supporting this connection, the claims are often not accompanied by credible, scientific studies.
After much debate, the federal government is moving to bring clearer and more stringent regulation for organic agriculture, the fastest growing sector in the food system.
The U.S. Department
After months of newspapers, blogs, and food safety experts raising flags about the dilapidated food safety system, cable news has piped into the food safety discussion more than usual in