The Wyoming Department of Health has confirmed that two children were hospitalized after drinking raw milk in September.
Five people, one adult, and four children, became ill after drinking raw, unpasteurized milk purchased through the Slow Food in the Tetons online market. The patients were infected with campylobacter and E.
Continue Reading Outbreak in Wyoming traced to raw milk
A lengthy joint resolution in the Wyoming House calls upon Congress to bring back equine slaughter and processing for markets outside the United States. Wyoming is offering the resolution as a “best management practice” for all those wild mustangs that roam and breed with little effective management throughout the Cowboy
Continue Reading Are there enough wild horses to bring back equine slaughter for human food?
Rep. Liz Cheney is trying to come up with the recipe she needs to survive a six-way Republican primary on Aug. 16. It’s no surprise that the Wyoming congresswoman is making the state’s beef and meat products part of her “electoral stew.”
Cheney has introduced a bill to allow state-inspected
Continue Reading Cheney wants state-inspected meat to be ‘great enough’ for out-of-state sales
The Wyoming Legislature’s unanimous vote earlier this year on House Bill (HB) 95 means the state requirement that a game warden must first provide a tag before a resident can claim big game roadkill won’t any longer be mandated.
Wyoming is stepping through regulations for a new roadkill system starting
Continue Reading Easy electronic authorization to harvest roadkill is coming to Wyoming
Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,” laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and a sixth is about the join the Show-Me-State ban.
It means at least seven new
Continue Reading The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states
The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) and the Casper-Natrona County Health Department continue to investigate a growing Natrona County Hepatitis A outbreak that began in October 2017.
Since then, 14 cases have been confirmed among Natrona County residents, which is a significant increase over the usual total for the entire
Continue Reading Wyoming public health officials investigate Hep A outbreak
On only a half dozen occasions, has Food Safety News published articles resembling “book reviews.” For various reasons, we are not really in that business. Sometimes, however, books merit mentions in the news. That’s what happened recently when author Baylen J. Linnekin’s comments made news stories about the Maine Food
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: A voice for Food Freedom
Scott Skavdahl, the federal judge in Casper, WY, has to decide how to balance free speech and private property rights. That’s a task the U.S. District Court judge did not have to take up last year when he tossed out challenges to two Wyoming laws prohibiting trespassing on private land
Continue Reading Wyoming can’t block free speech at private property lines
The Maine Legislature will meet in special session on Nov. 1 to fix the state’s recently adopted food sovereignty law. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is prepared to take over all meat and poultry inspections in the state if the lawmakers fail to enact and amendment.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage
Continue Reading USDA ready to take over meat, poultry inspections in Maine
Mandatory country-of-origin-labeling bills for beef and ground beef made it out of committees in Pierre and Cheyenne, but got no further in the farm and ranch friendly South Dakota and Wyoming Legislatures.
Senate Bill 135 went down in the South Dakota Senate on Feb. 25. It would have required grocery
Continue Reading Wyoming, South Dakota nix country-of-origin-labeling for beef
