A court in the European Union has dismissed a case brought by two Brazilian meat companies about a 2018 decision to ban imports of their products into the EU because of public health reasons.
The
Continue Reading Two Brazilian meat firms lose case against EU import ban
An impressive sounding name — Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine — is not likely to make up for the advocacy group’s lack of scientific evidence for a new petition it has filed with USDA’s Food
Continue Reading Petition seeks COVID-19 testing, reporting, warnings for meat and poultry
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the state of Iowa have finalized a Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) agreement. It allows state-inspected meat and poultry products to be shipped across state lines.
The agreement
Continue Reading Iowa is 7th state to earn OK for interstate sales of state-inspected meat, poultry
Two consumer groups want to see government and industry do something instead of nothing when it comes to keeping certain bacteria out of Americans’ diets via contaminated poultry.
The groups’ leaders say they don’t want
Continue Reading Watchdogs on patrol; seeking safer poultry through preventive controls
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Hadar reported in 28 states. There has been a total of 97 people infected with the outbreak strain.
Seventeen people —
Continue Reading Almost 100 sick in Salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry flocks
An Australian university has been awarded a grant to improve the effectiveness of a Salmonella Typhimurium vaccine in poultry. The aim is to lower the risk of foodborne pathogens and reduce the number of human
Continue Reading USDA researchers part of Australian university’s look at Salmonella poultry vaccine
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
For more than six weeks, a federal judge in Minnesota has been considering whether to dismiss a union challenge of USDA’s regulation of line speeds for swine slaughter.
On the West Coast, in Northern California,
Continue Reading Poultry and swine line speeds are both now federal cases
The level of Campylobacter in Swedish poultry for meat production is at an all-time low, according to the Swedish Poultry Meat Association.
The group claims the presence of Campylobacter in poultry meat in 2019 declined
Continue Reading Record low for Campylobacter presence in Swedish poultry
Dutch authorities have changed the method of controlling Salmonella in certain poultry farms after pressure from the European Commission.
Carola Schouten, minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, told the lower house of parliament (Tweede
Continue Reading NVWA changes poultry Salmonella control after EU pressure
A low sampling frequency and Salmonella detection rate by food companies in Greece means contribution to a national control program is “practically ineffective,” according to DG Sante.
The unit responsible for the European Commission’s policies
Continue Reading DG Sante finds ‘weak points’ in Greek Salmonella control
