The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a rule to change post-mortem (after death) inspection requirements for swine slaughter establishments “to remove mandatory mandibular lymph node incision
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The Department of Government Efficiency has cut staff at the Food and Drug Administration, including employees in food safety roles.
Following the cuts, Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim
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For nearly a decade and a half, food safety advocates like me have recited CDC’s 2011 foodborne illness estimates: 3,000 deaths. 128,000 hospitalizations. 48 million illnesses
Maybe these aren’t mysteries but food science problems that will be quickly solved like all the others.
Or not.
The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a highly contagious
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The spread of bird flu to dairy cows, along with the discovery of viral fragments in 20 percent of retail milk samples, has turned an outbreak that long vexed
Eleven organizations that work closely with the Food and Drug Administration are asking bipartisan congressional leaders to work with them on “several pressing food safety issues this year.”
The eleven
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Today the public comment period will close on a USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) rulemaking that, if all goes as planned, should increase the price of organic eggs. With
Four years ago,
Thomas Gremillion of the Consumer Federation of America petitioned USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on behalf of the Safe Food Coalition. The petition sought
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This past week, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that it will begin publishing genetic data on the pathogens that federal inspectors find in poultry slaughterhouses.
Editor’s note: Guest opinions columns and editorials or what we call “op-eds” are an important part of Food Safety News. Since we got our start more than a decade
In public policy, as in life, learning from past mistakes is a cardinal rule for success. That is why it was disappointing to see Thomas Gremillion from the Consumer Federation
