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22 Feb 2013, 10:20 pm
So, in the near two decades of being involved in every major foodborne illness outbreak in the United States, I have seen more than a few outbreaks that, if I had the authority, I would have prosecuted — some as felonies and some as misdemeanors. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 9:58 pm
He oversees an investigative/enterprise unit designed to use the Federal Agencies to break stories and expose trouble in food, drug, airline and environmental safety. [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 10:01 pm
Richard Linton, PhD Richard Linton is Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 6:47 am
I had lunch with an old friend (now days, all my friends are) yesterday who asked me why Foster Farms and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Services (FSIS) have not recalled chicken – presumably whole or cut and not ground – even after 124 have been sickened (at least 30 hospitalized) by antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg? [read post]
16 Feb 2013, 7:14 am
Epidemiologic and traceback investigations conducted by officials in local, state, and federal public health, agriculture, and regulatory agencies linked this outbreak to eating ground beef purchased from Hannaford stores. [read post]
15 Feb 2013, 10:55 pm
Department of Agriculture regulates poultry manufacturers and tests samples harmful bacteria. [read post]
15 Feb 2013, 3:39 pm
Perhaps it is time for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) to fulfill its public health mission and get antibiotic-resistant Salmonella out of the American chicken supply. [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]
4 Jan 2013, 1:52 pm
., and Betty Sutton, D-Ohio—earned the endorsement of nearly 300 national, state, and local law enforcement agencies covering all 50 states, and would cost taxpayers nothing, according to the Congressional Budget Office. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 7:00 am
Department of Agriculture U.S. [read post]
27 Sep 2012, 12:12 pm
The Assembly approved resolutions on a wide range of issues including action to recover Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks and avert extinctions of rare dolphin species; shutting down illegal bear farms; scaling back offshore drilling in French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana; and providing better payment channels for ecosystem services in poor countries. [read post]
20 Sep 2012, 8:37 am
Department of Agriculture today announced that the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) will begin issuing several major USDA statistical reports at 12:00 noon EDT beginning in January 2013. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 2:59 am
Nunes blasted Compassion Over Killing, the advocacy group that went undercover, as "extremists who are actively working to undermine production agriculture in the United States. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 12:39 pm
ChinaAdmitted to practice law in CaliforniaErin Elizabeth KeeB.A., College of Charleston (Political Science), cum laude, Phi Sigma PiJ.D., University of South Carolina School of LawMasters of Environmental Law and Policy, Vermont Law SchoolLegal experience: Contract Attorney, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP; Legislative Research Intern, Rural Vermont, Farm Advocacy Group; Law Clerk, The South Carolina Department of Agriculture, Office of the Commissioner;… [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]
15 Jun 2012, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture's pending catfish inspection program, something that was added to the 2008 Farm Bill -- under the guise of food safety -- to help protect southern catfish farmers from the influx of import competition.With support from both sides of the aisle -- including Sens. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture, according to a frank new report by the Government Accountability Office. [read post]
4 May 2012, 2:59 am
But when OCI was established, it was empowered to propose criminal prosecutions to any U.S. district attorney's office.For the next 18 years, FDA commissioners came and went, but OCI Director Terry Vermillion, the former Secret Service agent who was the agency's first "top cop," stayed on.OCI, with about 230 agents and a $41 million operating budget, put up some impressive numbers. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 2:59 am
NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) and FSA (Farm Service Agency) would still do compliance checks using the same system we have in place now, and crop insurance agents would not have an additional role. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 12:42 pm
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