New rulemaking from the Department of Agriculture will allow swine slaughter facilities to opt in to a new inspection system that focuses on new requirements for microbial testing and pathogen control ...
USDA’s Mindy Brashears submitted this column to Food Safety News this week. In the world of food safety, 1993 was a watershed moment. Early that year, hundreds of people became ill and four children ...
The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at ...
In early April, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was going to put pork inspection under industry control, rather than the control of federal inspectors. The USDA ...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) posted a final rule that establishes an optional new inspection system for pork processors. Despite pushback ...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on USDA’s recent rulemaking for the Modernization of Swine Slaughter Inspection did not find much to concern USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's release last week of a final rule on swine-slaughter inspection has been met with complaints from watchdog groups concerned about public health and the ...
In the world of food safety, 1993 was a watershed moment. Early that year, hundreds of people became ill and four children died from an E. coli outbreak linked to fast-food burgers. At the time, I was ...