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26 Mar 2013, 10:30 pm
Aspart of its “ongoing effort to ensure integrity in the nation’s nutrition safety net,” the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed a rule that would allow the Department to suspend immediately payments to retail stores that it suspects have “flagrantly” trafficked SNAP benefits. [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 6:33 am
Department of Agriculture. [read post]
24 Mar 2013, 10:00 pm
Department of Agriculture. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 9:58 pm
Mike Stobbe Mike Stobbe is a medical and health reporter for the Associated Press covering the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society. [read post]
18 Feb 2013, 10:00 pm
Department of Agriculture. [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 10:01 pm
LeeAnn Jaykus, PhD LeeAnn Jaykus is a professor of food science for the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 10:01 pm
Kirk Robinson, Assistant Director of Food Safety and Customer Services at the state’s agriculture department, said that even though the department has very little oversight of fresh produce sold at farmers markets, it does offer workshops on food safety. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 7:35 am
Department of Interior. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 7:30 am
Department of Interior. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 9:38 pm
BACKGROUND On October 17, 1994, the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) announced a new Escherichia Coli O157:H7 (“E. [read post]
21 Sep 2012, 8:30 am
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, in 2010 16.2 million children in America (nearly one in five) lived in food-insecure households and, as a result, struggled with hunger at some time during the year. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 2:59 am
Undercover footage shot by the Humane Society of the United States showed non-ambulatory cows being grossly mistreated, sparking outrage among consumers and animal welfare advocates. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 2:59 am
Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency to submit a report on measures taken, and proposed to be taken, to develop and implement a cohesive national policy for the low-level presence of agronomic biotechnology material in crops, including grain and other commodity crops, for food, feed and processing.) [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 2:59 am
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9 Apr 2012, 2:59 am
Farmers markets and CSAs have an added benefit because customers are usually purchasing whole foods (simpler to trace), rather than prepared products containing a variety of ingredients.Country of origin labelingAccording to the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), country of origin labeling (COOL) is a "law that requires retailers, such as full-line grocery stores, supermarkets,… [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 7:08 am
About the Sub Sandwich Recall According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services discovered the Listeria contamination of the finished sandwich product during routine testing. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 1:59 am
Outside of FSIS, among the other cuts planned by USDA include:- Farm Service Agency (FSA): Consolidate 131 county offices in 32 states; more than 2,100 FSA offices will remain throughout the United States- Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS): Close 2 country offices; more than 95 FAS offices will remain throughout the world.- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): Close 15 APHIS offices in 11 states and 5… [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 1:59 am
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $542,999 grant to a Clemson University food safety scientist to study how norovirus spreads in elementary schools, a project that is especially timely given the addition of salad bars in many school lunch programs.Angela Fraser, an associate professor and food safety specialist in the food, nutrition and packaging science department, will lead a three-year project --… [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 1:59 am
Richard Adee, whose 80,000 hives in multiple states produce 7 million pounds of honey each year, told Food Safety News that "honey has been valued by millions for centuries for its flavor and nutritional value and that is precisely what is completely removed by the ultra-filtration process. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 4:53 pm
The IWG includes representatives from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”). [read post]
