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
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
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
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
Continue Reading NAMI petitions SCOTUS for writ of certiorari over California’s Prop 12
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.
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
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
Continue Reading Comments on Salmonella as adulterant petition will be accepted for 60 more days
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
Continue Reading Former USDA officials say feds critically short of veterinarians
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
Continue Reading Catch the 2013 — NAMI’s guidelines still right on target
The government of Canada’s announcement this week of changes to its food and drug regulations to permit irradiation of ground beef was not a surprise. It was a long time coming, though, with industry having
Continue Reading Canada offers beef irradiation as another tool for food safety
