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12 Mar 2024, 4:40 am by Tom Kosakowski
•     A Historical Journey of Organisational Ombuds in the United States. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 11:13 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Encouragement for the USDA’s Office of Inspector General to increase its efforts to combat illegal animal fighting. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 6:07 am by Rachel Levinson-Waldman
DHS has not conducted a public empirical evaluation that demonstrates that ATS is effective, despite multiple reports from the Government Accountability Office and DHS’s own inspector general urging the department to measure whether ATS and its associated systems achieve their intended purpose and ensure the quality of the data that powers these systems. [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 12:38 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Department of Agriculture suspended the commercial breeding operation’s license. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Lawmakers in 33 states have introduced bills this year that would prohibit the Chinese government, some China-based businesses, and many Chinese citizens from buying agricultural land or property near military bases. [read post]
23 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm by Guest Contributor
  Restrictions on Imports and Exports: Cell-cultured meat and poultry products may not be exported into the United States unless the agency has determined that the foreign country has “a regulatory food safety inspection system that is equivalent to that of the United States for the production of cell-cultured meat or poultry food products. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 1:15 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
In 2017, under the Obama Administration’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the agency finalized a rule replacing industry inspectors with USDA-trained inspectors, among other protections. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 9:20 am by kblocher@hslf.org
The Committee encouraged the agency’s Office of Inspector General to increase its efforts to combat illegal animal fighting, noting that this activity is not simply cruel but carries the potential to spread the highly contagious Virulent Newcastle Disease and avian flu. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
An inspector general report found “administrative, ethical and policy violations” by Blanton, a Trump-era appointee, including that he abused his government vehicle and misrepresented himself as a law enforcement official. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 1:33 pm by Jonan Pilet
In December 2018, I joined the FDA with the goal of helping to modernize the food safety oversight system in the United States and protecting the American people from contaminated food. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 9:03 pm by Claire Hill
Department of Agriculture (USDA) finalized a rule that increases oversight over the production, handling, and sale of products certified as “USDA organic. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 9:03 pm by News Desk
 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through its Agricultural Market Service (AMS) provides beef grading services to packing plants by supplying professional graders who grade beef at the facility. 4. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 3:08 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
It will end the system of industry self-policing that the United States Department of Agriculture Inspector General called a failure and said should be abolished. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 9:05 pm by U.S. Department of Agriculture
FSIS works closely with the USDA Office of the Inspector General (OIG), as well as other Federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 12:55 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the United States Department of Agriculture had unlawfully withdrawn a 2017 rule designed to fix the agency’s weak regulations that have allowed horse soring to persist within the Tennessee walking horse industry. [read post]
26 Jul 2022, 3:10 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that challenged the United States Department of Agriculture’s withdrawal of a 2017 horse protection rule after the rule had been finalized and released. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 3:36 am by Philip Mousavizadeh
In a statement released yesterday, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is working with the United Nations and other mediating countries to secure a humanitarian corridor for agricultural exports in the Black Sea. [read post]