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
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
Continue Reading Cancer warning labels sought for processed meat and poultry
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
Continue Reading FDA Extends Deadline for ‘natural’ Comments
