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Letter from the Editor: Careful what you step in when on Capitol Hill

By Dan Flynn on May 27, 2022

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The U.S. Senate confirmed  Dr. Robert Califf as Commissioner of Food and Drugs by a 50-46 vote only a  few weeks ago. And the FDA Commissioner had to spend this week bouncing…
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Real deadline for new hog slaughter inspection rule might be Sept. 30

By Dan Flynn on August 5, 2019

USDA’s new swine slaughter inspection system has been 22 years in the making. And if the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) wants to avoid further delay, it likely must act this month or next…
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Treating virulent strain of Salmonella as adulterant in largest beef recall in history

By Dan Flynn on October 5, 2018

Yesterday’s big beef recall is the largest in history for possible Salmonella contamination, according to an online discussion involving retired USDA microbiologist Carl Custer. 

Custer responded to comments to the industry newsletter Meatingplace that included…
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Union’s allies in House again come out against new swine rule

By Dan Flynn on April 24, 2018

About one-third of the U.S. House Democratic caucus has signed a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue demanding that USDA drop the Swine Slaughter Inspection Modernization Rule.

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GAO tells Rep. DeLauro that agencies need to pick up the pace

By Dan Flynn on April 17, 2018

At the request of Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-CT, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has returned to the problem of managing the risk of arsenic in rice. The GAO is an agency in the…
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Food Safety Caucus urges Trump to name Under Secretary

By Dan Flynn on March 10, 2018

Ten Democrats who are members of the Congressional Food Safety Caucus are asking President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to get someone named as USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety.

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USDA introduces ‘fix’ in testing for Salmonella in poultry

By News Desk on July 1, 2016

Instructions for testing personnel to use a new “neutralizing buffer” solution to reduce the effect of antimicrobial sanitizers take effect today at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The “fix,” explained in a two-page …
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Beach Beat: Nuggets of news from recent days

By Coral Beach on February 6, 2016

Welcome to Beach Beat — I figure when your mom gives you a great byline at birth, you should use it every chance you get. I couldn’t be happier about my byline being added to…
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Sixty Democrats ask Vilsack to delay new hog slaughter rule

By Dan Flynn on January 20, 2016

Sixty liberal and mostly urban congressional Democrats have weighed in with their opinions about making bacon, telling the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to further delay expansion of the 20-year old hog Hazard Analysis and Critical…
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