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FSIS seeking public comments on a number of proposed rules and regulations for the USDA

By News Desk on December 4, 2022

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service are seeking public comments on proposed rules and notices, which are viewable on the FSIS Federal Register & Rulemaking webpage.

Of note is that FSIS extended the…

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Organic, raw farmer found in contempt by federal court for eastern Pennsylvania

By Dan Flynn on June 17, 2021

Federal Judge Edward G. Smith Wednesday found farmer Amos Miller in contempt of court in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The judge is discussing with counsel how to resolve the issue…
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Publisher’s Platform: We are having a problem with the U.S. meat supply

By Bill Marler on April 21, 2020
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You cannot slaughter animals without workers to do the work, and you cannot sell meat without inspectors.

We need to protect both workers and inspectors or we will see more plants shutter and our…
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3-state recruitment drive underway for USDA meat and poultry inspectors

By News Desk on November 27, 2018

Federal job recruiters are in cattle country this week and next looking for prospective food safety inspectors in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) currently employs…
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Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry

By Carl Custer on November 13, 2018
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Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part opinion piece. To read part one, please click here.


In the previous article, I wrote about the decades-old public health problem of poultry-borne salmonellosis.
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Letter to the Editor: No obfuscation if you keep to the facts

By Food Safety News Readers on January 28, 2018

Written in response to: Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speeds 

Let’s be clear and stick to the facts when discussing line speeds in poultry plants. Parsing words and bending facts will have real victims:…
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Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed

By Brian Ronholm on January 13, 2018

The key to understanding the complexities in the debate over the line speed issue for poultry production is to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the line speed for slaughter and the line…
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Raynetta Jackson of FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on October 16, 2017

Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here with permission.

FSIS is more than just…
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Former USDA officials say feds critically short of veterinarians

By Cookson Beecher on August 21, 2017

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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Faces of food safety: Meet Cedric Dial of the FSIS

By U.S. Department of Agriculture on June 26, 2017

Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here with permission.

Cedric Dial, a consumer safety…
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