PETA has filed new comments to an old petition to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, seeking to have more criminal charges filed against a business previously found to have violated the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.
The new comments are associated with a petition PETA and other animal activists
Continue Reading PETA campaigning for criminal prosecution of packing plant in petition
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) renewed a cooperative agreement with a formal signing on Aug.1.
The FSIS workforce is viewed as critical to the day-to-day oversight and inspection operations for meat, poultry, and egg products at the
Continue Reading USDA gets employee safety training and OSHA gets access to food facilities under new MOU
It costs the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) more than $1 billion a year for close to 10,000 inspectors to provide their services at more than 6,200 locations where the private sector produces meat and egg products.
For the past two years, a few executives in Washington D.C.,
Continue Reading First signs that the executives may remove FSIS from remote controls
This year marks 25 years since FSIS issued its landmark final rule, “Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP),” issued in the summer of 1996.
“Food safety is an ever-evolving process,” said FSIS Administrator Paul Kiecker, who began his agency career as an inspector in a food processing
Continue Reading 25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference
Mindy Brashears, the fifth in history confirmed USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety, said goodbye to her consumer, government and industry stakeholders January 14.
Her political appointment as the federal government’s top food safety official expired a week later on Inauguration Day, ending her two-year tenure, including 303 days as
Continue Reading How the food safety transition went, according to the public calendars
Food safety attorney Bill Marler wants to know what’s up with his petition calling on the USDA to declare specific “outbreak serotypes” of Salmonella as adulterants in meat.
He filed the petition more than a year ago, on Jan. 19, 2020, with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), on
Continue Reading Marler renews call for declaring ‘outbreak serotypes’ of Salmonella as adulterants in meat and poultry
Changes in federal food safety policy and personnel are occurring with the new Biden Administration — officials are talking about some, but not others.
They left it to Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund to announce that the Biden government has officially withdrawn a pending rule by
Continue Reading Federal food safety policy and personnel changes underway at FSIS, FDA, and CDC
After eight months on the job as boss over USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service headquarters (FSIS), Administrator Paul Kiecker likely is feeling like P.T. Barnum.
Kiecker’s meetings with people outside of the federal government occur with enough frequency and in such numbers that his schedule must feel like a
Continue Reading New FSIS boss moves from one telephonic ring to another
ROSEMONT, IL — Yesterday’s Food Safety Summit’s annual Town Hall Q&A featured top regulators and agency leaders from FDA, USDA, AFDO and CDC. They talked about their agency’s work during the past year, with a special focus on how their work has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frank Yiannas
Continue Reading Leaders speak about how their agencies have responded in the wake of the pandemic
The Meat & Poultry Daily News recently did a question and answer session with Paul Kiecker, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator since last March 12. It’s worth reading in its entirety at M&P, and I am going to steal some quotes here.
Kiecker certainly deserves the attention
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: Kiecker speaks out after rising to the top as FSIS Administrator
