Editor’s note: This is part four of a four-part series.
In the previous three articles, I described what I consider the underlying causes of the devolution of FSIS as an organization. Any fool can criticize.
Continue Reading FSIS and fixing the problem
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I have been thinking it has been some time since I dug into a Naughty or Nice list. Here is one we at Food Safety News put together (with input from readers)
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Memories of a Naughty and Nice List
The numbers are in for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for the final quarater of fiscal year 2022. FSIS progressive enforcment starts on the slaugther room floor and contnues until it reaches into
Continue Reading Fiscal year 2022 goes in the books at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
When you’re waiting to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, hearing that your nomination has been taken hostage with others is not good news. But for Jose Emilio Esteban, who the president has nominated as
Continue Reading Time is running out for Esteban’s confirmation in lame-duck Congress
Editor’s note: This is part three of a four-part series.
Ten years after issuing the Pathogen Reduction; Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) Systems: Final Rule, The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
Continue Reading FSIS and the era of enforcement
Both the FDA and the USDA have announced new outbreaks, but have provided virtually no details on the situations.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reports that it is investigating
Continue Reading USDA, FDA relatively mum on new outbreaks
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Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a 4-part series.
Between 1906 and 1992, FSIS and its predecessors attracted minimal public attention as they quietly pursued their assigned mission: assure that adulterated
Continue Reading FSIS and a fundmental truth
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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 food prices up
Continue Reading Time for a new label on ‘organic’ eggs?
Editor’s note: This is the first of a four-part series.
I had two simultaneous careers: the U.S. Army Reserve and the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). I graduated from the U.S. Army War
Continue Reading Federal meat inspection has failed to adapt to operational environment
The rule with the title: “Strengthening Organic Enforcement” is still hanging fire at USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).
It’s said to be the single largest piece of organic food rule-making since the National Organic Program
Continue Reading Rule to reform and update enforcement of organic industry remains alive