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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has extended until Nov. 30 the trial period for a study on the impact line speeds have on workers at swine processing facilities.
Food safety officials at the Department of Agriculture say new steps offered Friday will reduce salmonella contamination from poultry, but the ideas have a long path ahead of them before becoming established protocols at the nation’s processing facilities.
The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Monday it is declaring salmonella as an adulterant in breaded stuffed raw chicken products.
The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service no longer plans to impose masking requirements at federally inspected meat processing facilities.
India is ready to allow imports of U.S. pork, removing a long-running trade irritant between the two countries, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday.
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Jose Emilio Esteban as the next undersecretary for food safety at USDA, a role that would give him oversight of the FSIS programs he currently monitors as the agency’s chief scientist.
The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) plans to beef up its efforts to prevent the spread of Salmonella, the agency announced Tuesday.
Can meat made with cultured animal cells be called a steak? The Food Safety and Inspection Service wants answers to that question and more than a dozen others as it tries to determine how to label cell-cultured meat and poultry products now being developed for commercialization in the U.S.
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Saturday that Tyson Foods is recalling approximately 8.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products over concerns that they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
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