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 the work of the non-profit Ad Council for the federal government’s top three food safety
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The Vilsacks May Disagree on USDA Plan to Revamp Poultry Inspection
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.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has proposed a rule to broadly
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Letter From The Editor: Just Mad
These should be heady days at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The nation’s $1+ trillion deficit is not much of a speed bump for the $288 billion potpourri we call the 2012 Farm Bill, replenishing the supply of goodies USDA gives out to those who qualify in the 400
Ban, Testing Helped in Discovery of 4th Mad Cow
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.
A dairy cow in a central California dairy has been diagnosed with atypical BSE — mad-cow disease — according to both state
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USDA Has New Scheme to Trace Animal Disease
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, with top down coverage of nearly every
critter on the land. But, as everybody in
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