This time we’ve been living through reminds me of when I first started going to the movies. A simple technique they often used back then was to start with a blur on the screen
Continue Reading Letter From the Editor: What’s coming into focus for 2022
Editor’s note: Following is a letter sent to the USDA’s deputy undersecretary for food safety regarding a petition filed by several consumer groups and individuals who are asking the government to declare certain types
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Request for update on petition to deem Salmonella an adulterant
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) presented an installment of its Virtual National Policy Conference series, titled “A New Day at USDA for Food Safety?” on Tuesday.
Speakers included Dr. Patricia Griffin, chief of
Continue Reading Stakeholders reaffirm need for more modern meat and poultry policies
Bill Marler is getting the last word on the petition he filed with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in January, which is on behalf of Rick Schiller, Steven Romes, the Porter Family, Food
Continue Reading Bill Marler’s last word (or maybe not) on the Salmonella petition
Food safety attorney Bill Marler’s petition to ban meat from containing any of 31 Salmonella outbreak serotypes “would be one of the most significant policy changes affecting the meat and poultry industries in decades,” according
Continue Reading Meat industry wants more comment time for ‘most significant policy change’ in decades
With annual retail sales approaching $100 billion, an effective structure of industry associations, and powerful K Street lobbyists, this week is ending in surprising silence from the powerful meat and poultry industries when it comes
Continue Reading Meat and poultry industries end week in silence over Marler Salmonella petition
Attorneys representing the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2014 because the agency would not declare the most dangerous Salmonella strains as adulterants.
But after only
Continue Reading Marler ups the ante on meat industry; petitions USDA to ban 31 Salmonella strains
