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Food Safety Campaign Back on Boards and Airwaves

By Dan Flynn on June 28, 2012

Those plain-speaking public service announcements warning consumers about foodborne illnesses and promoting food safety practices are gearing up for another summer run starting just before the 4th of July. The Food Safe Families campaign is…
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The Vilsacks May Disagree on USDA Plan to Revamp Poultry Inspection

By Helena Bottemiller on May 4, 2012

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Iowa congressional candidate Christie Vilsack, who have been married for almost 40 years, are publicly at odds over a controversial plan to expand a semi-privatized poultry inspection model.

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Letter From The Editor: Just Mad

By Dan Flynn on April 29, 2012

These should be heady days at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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The nation’s $1+ trillion deficit is not much of a speed bump for the $288 billion potpourri we call the 2012 Farm Bill…

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Ban, Testing Helped in Discovery of 4th Mad Cow

By Dan Flynn on April 25, 2012

A six-year span without any bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in the U.S. is over as the prion disease has again been discovered in the nation’s cattle herd.

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A dairy cow in a central California…
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USDA Has New Scheme to Trace Animal Disease

By Dan Flynn on August 10, 2011

For most of the past decade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture

tried to get farmers and ranchers to accept the National Animal

Identification System (NAIS) without success.

NAIS

was to be a high tech solution…

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