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
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Former USDA officials say feds critically short of veterinarians
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
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Catch the 2013 — NAMI’s guidelines still right on target
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
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Canada offers beef irradiation as another tool for food safety
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
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Cancer warning labels sought for processed meat and poultry
A nine-page petition filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest asks the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to begin requiring colorectal cancer warning labels on certain meat and
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FDA Extends Deadline for ‘natural’ Comments
Editor’s Note: Coral Beach, formerly of The Packer, joins us today as the new Managing Editor of Food Safety News. With more than 3,300 comments having been filed since Nov. 12, the FDA has
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