The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) in the United States, to deepen ” meat industry coordination and government collaboration,” has a new agreement with organizations in Canada and Mexico.
NAMI is the nation’s oldest and largest trade association representing the U.S. meat industry,
The Canadian Meat Council (CMC), Consejo Mexicano
Continue Reading Oldest U.S. meat association forms an agreement with similar groups in Canada and Mexico
Food safety is reason enough to kill the Processing Revival and Interstate Meat Exemption Act, otherwise known as the PRIME Act, according to some of the industry’s most powerful players.
The North American Meat Institute and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association put themselves on record for the 118th Congress as
Continue Reading Food safety concerns are said to require the defeat of the “well-intentioned” PRIME Act
Fear of a Supreme Court review of California’s Proposition 12 has set the state’s congressional Democrats on a different strategy. They want to recall the amicus curiae briefs the federal government dropped last year in North American Meat Institute v. Becerra in the Supreme Court and National Pork Producers Council
Continue Reading California’s congressional Democrats do not want Prop 12 reviewed by high court
“Essential employees” kept the economy from totally tanking during the past year, often leaving the impression that the coronavirus made these jobs among the most dangerous.
Meat and poultry production plant work, especially in spring of 2020, was seen as among the most dangerous as localized outbreaks caused temporary closures
Continue Reading Meat and poultry industry says its tactics worked to keep employees safer than most as pandemic went on
The State of California has until April 2 to respond to a Petition for a writ of certiorari filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the North American Meat Institute (NAMI).
Attorneys for NAMI say enactment of California’s Proposition 12 demands the Supreme Court answer a question raised by the
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The North America Meat Institute (NAMI) is likely to file a writ of certiorari for U.S. Supreme Court review of California’s Proposition 12, which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has repeatedly declined to hear.
Passed by California’s largely urban voters in November 2018, Prop 12 imposes space requirements regarding
Continue Reading 9th Circuit again sides with California on Prop 12; meat producers likely to seek U.S. Supreme Court review
The “essential” employees who have kept meat and poultry available during the pandemic should be at or near the front of the line for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, on that there is rare agreement up and down the industry.
After months of pandemic rancor, it appears there is finally widespread
Continue Reading Meat, poultry industries united behind vaccine for employees
An additional 60 days is available for public comments on a petition seeking to declare 31 Salmonella strains as adulterants in meat and poultry.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service added the time to the comment clock in response to a March 16 request from the North American Meat
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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 positions at the U.S, Department of Agriculture are in line for new leadership.
On July
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So what’s the gold standard guideline on how to humanely handle feed animals in 2017?
North American Meat Institute’s (NAMI), 2013 Guidelines.
Next question, please.
You can credit, as does NAMI, the “2013” to that innovate Colorado Professor who delights audiences with her speeches by always making pure sense and
Continue Reading Catch the 2013 — NAMI’s guidelines still right on target
