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

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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
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“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
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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

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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