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EFSA publishes latest studies from risk assessment program

By News Desk on June 2, 2022

A study has assessed the risk of Anisakis from fish in Portugal and people’s knowledge of the parasite.

Researchers gathered information on risk perception and attitudes in the Portuguese population to contamination of fish with…
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Urgent action needed to curb the spread of African Swine Fever in the Americas

By News Desk on September 9, 2021

Since the current  African Swine Fever (ASF) panzootic began in the Liaoning province of China in 2018, the United States and Canada have kept the pig virus out of North America. But, in July, USDA’s…

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Poultry and swine line speeds are both now federal cases

By Dan Flynn on March 17, 2020

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,…
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Final hog rule sent off to the Federal Register, ending the HIMP pilot era after 22 years

By Dan Flynn on September 18, 2019

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s new regulatory system for market hogs is a direct descendant of the food safety reforms first put in place after the Jack-in-the-Box tragedy 25 years ago.

FSIS made…
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Letter to The Editor: Better food safety through science, not emotions 

By Food Safety News Readers on July 1, 2019
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When the Washington Post, members of Congress, and 35 other organizations [1] raised concerns about a proposed modernization of a food safety and inspection process, we needed to provide a…
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African swine fever may reach U.S. herds via Chinese pork products

By Dan Flynn on March 20, 2019

More dogs in more ports of entry are being put to work by Customs and Border Protection to help the USDA keep African swine fever from entering the United States. They fear Chinese food containing…
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Amendments to Nebraska Bill Might be Expansion Card for Smithfield Foods

By Dan Flynn on March 5, 2015

Recently filed amendment language now pending in the Nebraska Legislature could clear the way for Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods Inc. to own, control, and feed hogs in contract swine operations in the state. The foreign-owned agribusiness…
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A new day: IFT weighs in on the future of the FDA

By Guest Opinion on February 1, 2023

Letter to the Editor: We don’t need an upheaval of USDA and FDA to make a single food safety unit

By Guest Contributor on January 31, 2023

Letter from the Editor: An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own

By Dan Flynn on January 29, 2023
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