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8 Jan 2021, 10:17 am by Jeffrey Mitchell
NTIA hosts a searchable database featuring 50 federal broadband funding opportunities across a dozen federal agencies. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 10:59 am by kblocher@hslf.org
The USDA finalized a rule to require all dealers and exhibitors, including puppy breeders and roadside zoos, to apply for a new license every three years and pass a scheduled pre-license inspection, and the agency upgraded a few care standards for dogs. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 10:22 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Congress addressed these concerns by including a provision in the 2014 Farm Bill directing USDA to establish a de minimis exemption in the AWA for licensees with only a few non-dangerous animals. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 3:07 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
The package makes it clear that the authority of USDA inspectors supersedes that of industry inspectors and urges the agency to reinstate the HPA rule that was finalized but shelved in January 2017. [read post]
7 Dec 2020, 9:14 am by Jeffrey Mitchell
NTIA hosts a searchable database featuring 50 federal broadband funding opportunities across a dozen federal agencies. [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm by Cookson Beecher
Turns out that a lot of kids, and adults, have thanks to Perdue Farm’s “Chicken Plus” nuggets that are shaped like dinosaurs. [read post]
29 Nov 2020, 6:17 pm by Allan Blutstein
USDA (D.D.C.) -- determining that agency properly withheld farm numbers and tract numbers pursuant to Exemption 3 in conjunction with 7 U.S.C. [read post]
28 Nov 2020, 9:03 pm by Guest Contributor
  Please note that neither USDA/APHIS, nor USDA/FSIS, nor FDA/CVM, nor FDA/CFSAN have any on-farm jurisdiction for food-safety related issues. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 8:36 am by Stephanie Kelemen
In response, the FDA and the USDA spent several weeks creating a memorandum of understanding in order to coordinate a response. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 4:52 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
The House has already approved its appropriations bills, which fund federal government agencies, and they include significant protections for animals, including funding to address wildlife trafficking, slaughterhouse kill speeds, horse soring and slaughter, animal testing alternatives and wildlife markets, and to help chimpanzees, right whales and farm animals. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 2:22 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
We also hope the new administration will support states’ rights to protect farm, companion, and wild animals above and beyond federal standards, including California’s landmark 2018 ballot measure banning the sale of products from cruelty confined farm animals. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 9:48 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Biden and his administration to identify, unwind and undo four years’ worth of highly damaging policies and actions embraced by the USDA, Interior and other agencies. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 8:11 am by Jeffrey Mitchell
NTIA hosts a searchable database featuring 50 federal broadband funding opportunities across a dozen federal agencies. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 9:33 pm by Thomas Gremillion
USDA officials are quick to claim that they lack authority to go on farm, or that they cannot divulge “confidential” information, but companies do not have to participate in these “experimental” programs. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 9:09 am by News Desk
”  USDA FSIS’s three goals: Lead with Science  “We try to cover the entire farm to table continuum,” Brashears said. [read post]
19 Oct 2020, 2:27 pm by Joe Whitworth
He said there was a lack of clear, timely information from federal agencies such as FDA, CDC and OSHA. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 9:05 pm by News Desk
Annual Town Hall — Join Frank Yiannas of FDA; Paul Kiecker of USDA; Rob Tauxe of CDC; and Steve Mandernach of AFDO for 60 minutes of Q&A with the top regulators and agency leaders who will share the stage in an interactive session with the audience and each other. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 9:03 pm by Dan Flynn
  Amendments are to protect integrity in the organic supply chain and build consumer and industry trust in the USDA organic label by strengthening organic control systems, improving farm to market traceability, and providing robust enforcement of the USDA organic regulations. [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 9:05 pm by News Desk
Through the program, owners can show that their flocks meet all requirements to be considered unaffected by ND by both the Official State Agency and APHIS. [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 5:45 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Senate: In 2018, Gardner voted against an amendment to the farm bill (S. 3042), based on the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act (S. 741), to correct abuses that have undermined the USDA’s agriculture checkoff programs and to prevent checkoff dollars from being misused to lobby against animal welfare reforms and family farmer interests. [read post]