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9 Nov 2011, 4:14 am
" According to the report in Brownfield, "Moran cited a USDA memo issued last month that authorizes the department's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to conduct the forum. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 9:59 am
Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend regulations concerning the importation of plants and plant products by establishing the controlled import permit (CIP). [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 9:13 am
Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced a 30-day extension of the comment period for the proposed rule on animal disease traceability.In a press release, the USDA stated that, "under the proposed rule, unless specifically exempted, livestock moved interstate would have to be officially identified and accompanied by an interstate certificate of veterinary… [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 2:59 am
Procrastinators are getting an extra 30 days to get their comments in on the new animal traceability rule.USDA published a notice Friday officially extending the comment period to Dec. 9, moving the deadline forward from the former Nov. 9 date.About 250 comments have come in so far, and anyone just reading through them randomly is left with the impression that the new traceability plan is not any more popular than the now abandoned National Animal Identification System… [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is experiencing a hailstorm of opposition to its new animal disease traceability system as the proposal reaches the halfway point in the comment period that ends November 9.The replacement for the ill-fated National Animal Identification System, which was so unpopular with rural America that Congress cut its funding, was a late summer rollout by Secretary of Agriculture Tom… [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 5:27 am
Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (“APHIS”) issued the long-awaited proposed rule on Traceability for Livestock Moving Interstate. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
" This effort to standardize responses to foodborne epidemics can be seen in the FREE-B program itself, which was developed through a collaboration among FDA, the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS), all of whom may be called into action in an outbreak situation. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
Senate, Hagen appeared to be embracing the role of meeting with the Food Safely and Inspection Service's (FSIS's) far-flung constituency. [read post]
10 Jul 2011, 3:09 pm
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is charged with enforcing the Animal Welfare Act, which establishes basic standards of care and regulations for laboratory animals. [read post]
10 May 2011, 4:00 am
Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (“APHIS”) and participation is currently voluntary. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 2:59 am
Earlier this month, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing a two-year pilot project that would farm out the responsibility for studying environmental assessments of proposed biotech crops, such as Monsanto's Round-Up Ready alfalfa, to those companies themselves, or USDA-approved third parties. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Friday, contending the agency erred when it allowed genetically engineered Roundup Ready alfalfa to be grown without restrictions.Organic and sustainable farming advocates are challenging the Jan. 27 decision by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to fully deregulate GE alfalfa, which is engineered to withstand the herbicide glyphosate. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
"After conducting an environmental assessment, accepting and reviewing public comments and conducting a plant pest risk assessment, APHIS has determined that the Roundup Ready sugar beet root crop, when grown under APHIS imposed conditions, can be partially deregulated without posing a plant pest risk or having a significant effect on the environment," a top USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection… [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Friday asking him for details on the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)'s new interim rule to loosen restrictions on poultry imports from countries, like China, that have faced avian influenza in the past. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Farmers and the Center for Food Safety sued the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for deregulating the alfalfa without fully studying its impacts. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 11:28 pm
" The PPA empowers the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ("APHIS") "to prohibit or restrict the importation, exportation, and the interstate movement of plants, plant products, certain biological control organisms, noxious weeds and plant pests. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 11:27 pm
" The PPA empowers the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ("APHIS") "to prohibit or restrict the importation, exportation, and the interstate movement of plants, plant products, certain biological control organisms, noxious weeds and plant pests. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it has two preferred options regarding alfalfa genetically modified to resist Monsanto's weed killer Roundup--that it should either be allowed without restrictions, or allowed with certain geographic and isolation restrictions on seeds and, in some places, on hay.In analyzing the potential impacts of three proposed alternatives, USDA did not prefer a third option--maintaining the engineered alfalfa's regulated status.The impact… [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
District Court Judge Jeffrey White of San Francisco to uproot limited late-season and isolated plantings of sugar beet seedlings, or stecklings, authorized in September under permits issued by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).It is possible the U.S. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) of Summerland, British Columbia, a biotechnology company, has submitted an application to the U.S Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for market approval of a genetically modified apple that won't brown soon after slicing.To produce the non-browning effects in apples, OSF employed a patented technology originally developed by Australian researchers for… [read post]
