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Specific USDA agencies and their allocations include: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): $55 million Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS): $45 million Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS): $33 million Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS): $4 million Farm Service Agency (FSA): $3 million Commodity Credit Corporation The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) currently has $30 billion budgeted… [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 9:04 pm by News Desk
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of the H7N3 avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in Chesterfield County, SC. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
The USDA by April 15 will ask a federal court in California to dismiss a second lawsuit filed to overturn the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS’s) new inspection system for market hogs. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 9:03 pm by News Desk
A new National List of Reportable Animal Diseases (NLRAD) to further strengthen the country’s ability to detect, respond to and control animal diseases, is being proposed by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) The new list will provide a consolidated, comprehensive set of guidelines to ensure federal and state animal health officials quickly receive information about potential… [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 9:03 pm by Joe Whitworth
The audit in March and April 2019 by DG Sante, the European Commission’s unit for food safety and health, covered the official controls over slaughter of bovines and animal traceability in Poland. [read post]
17 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by U.S. Department of Agriculture
As leaders of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Agricultural Marketing Service, we can assure you that the agencies are committed to ensuring the health and safety of our employees while still providing the timely delivery of the services to maintain the movement of America’s food supply from farm to fork. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
Also brought under the federal Administrative Procedure Act Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and outgoing Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator Carmen Rottenberg are both named as defendants in their official capacities. [read post]
8 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by News Desk
To try and improve, Lithuania revealed the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) will verify inspections by local authorities between January and October 2020 at non-animal food production and primary production factories as well as providing training and written advice. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 9:10 pm by Dan Flynn
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has been clear since 2013 that its traceability program is not about food safety, but for tracking animals that might be subject to diseases. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 9:04 pm by Dan Flynn
Zoonotic diseases concern both CDC and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 5:33 am by Sara Amundson
Horse slaughter: Prohibits USDA expenditures on horse slaughter inspections, effectively preventing horse slaughter plants from operating in the U.S. during FY20. [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 11:18 am by Coral Beach
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was first notified of the Salmonella outbreak as early as June 2013. [read post]
19 Jan 2020, 9:00 am by Bill Marler
Now, there can be four or five a month,” said Richard Raymond, who was undersecretary for the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from 2005 to 2008. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 9:03 pm by Chuck Jolley
Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) HACCP-Based Inspection Model Project (HIMP) with these warnings: “A new rule . . . would reduce the number of government food safety inspectors in pork plants by 40 percent and remove most of the remaining inspectors. [read post]
8 Jan 2020, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
USDA employees will still inspect every animal before and after slaughter. [read post]
30 Dec 2019, 9:05 pm by News Desk
Official microbiological testing results from testing laboratories must be available to all regional inspection Service of Products of Animal Origin (SIPOA) offices. [read post]
25 Dec 2019, 9:05 pm by News Desk
Preventative care: Increasing hepatitis A vaccinations among food service workers Requiring mandatory (hepatitis A) vaccinations for food service workers is important for public safety and public health, especially since our global food trade is projected to increase over the years, increasing the probability of foodborne disease outbreaks. [read post]
23 Dec 2019, 9:06 pm by Coral Beach and Joe Whitworth
Beef plants — Although a single supplier had not been identified, federal officials knew a number of specific beef plants were contaminated with a strain of Salmonella behind a deadly outbreak. [read post]
19 Dec 2019, 3:35 pm by Sara Amundson
Horse slaughter: Prohibits USDA expenditures on horse slaughter inspections, effectively preventing horse slaughter plants from operating in the U.S. during FY20. [read post]