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23 May 2022, 9:18 am by kblocher@hslf.org
USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service agreed and committed to developing a new program uncompromised by conflicts of interest. [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]
5 Feb 2024, 9:03 pm by Guest Contributor
In recent years, Cheng has assumed leadership in ensuring food and health safety in the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, particularly in poultry, meat, egg products, and other Ready-to-Eat (RTE) production plants. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 1:30 pm by @travelblawg
They safeguard American agriculture and our natural resources by stopping plant pests and exotic foreign animal diseases at our nation’s borders. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 2:46 pm by Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M.
This memorandum provides guidance to licensees, permittees, and applicants concerning Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s restrictions on the production, importation, distribution, and use of autogenous biologics. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 2:14 pm by Michael Markarian
Department of Agriculture/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) has been unable to completely enforce the AWA in regard to activities of Class B dealers and that there are documented accounts of lost pets that have ended up in research institutions through Class B dealers. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 8:22 am
  According to S.654 and H.R.1148, the purpose of the FSA would be to: (A) regulate food safety and labeling to strengthen the protection of the public health; (B) ensure that food establishments fulfill their responsibility to produce food in a manner that protects the public health of all people in the United States; (C) lead an integrated, system-wide approach to food safety and to make more effective and efficient use of… [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 8:54 am
" The ruling affirms an injunction entered by the district court in May 2007, enjoining future planting of Monsanto alfalfa, called "Roundup Ready alfalfa," pending the preparation by the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), of an environmental impact statement (EIS). [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
Unless, of course, a Montana-based cattle ranchers’ organization can persuade a federal judge in Wyoming to call a halt to the RFID mandate handed down by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 1:07 pm by WIMS
Department of Agriculture, through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), is required to balance environmental considerations, international guidelines, and global trade concerns in adopting a final rule for the importation of SWPM. . . [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 11:40 am by Dan Flynn
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which is tasked with knocking down the current large outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Guest Contributor
As Undersecretary, I was most proud of the fact that FSIS worked well with other agencies within USDA, such as the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), both of which had relevance to food safety. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 9:02 pm by Joe Whitworth
COVID-19 impacted the inspection activities of all official agencies but in March to June 2020, the biggest disruption on official controls was at the Health Service Executive (HSE), which is mainly responsible for checks in retail businesses and firms manufacturing foods of non-animal origin. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 1:59 am
 Its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has deregulated GM plants without enough study to pass a smell test by federal judges, leaving the products snarled in litigation.Vilsack's letter, however, defended USDA's process decision and said he has no doubts about the safety of the GM crops.If in 2011, Vilsack can use his call for "common ground" to bring about a fair and predictable process, maybe he could get this… [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 10:01 pm by News Desk
Patients reported purchasing hedgehogs from various breeders, many of them licensed by the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 8:43 am by Agrilawyer
USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking comments until August 3, 2009 on its draft audit standard for the pilot Biotechnology Quality Management System (BQMS).BQMS is a voluntary program that aims to enhance compliance with regulations for field trials and transportation of certain GE organisms, by compiling draft standards that utilize current regulations on environmental releases, importations and interstate movements. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
"Now it has named Michael Doyle from the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety; Barbara Masters, the former administrator of USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS); and Craig W. [read post]
30 May 2013, 10:30 pm by News Desk
Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is now investigating whether the GM wheat in Oregon is an isolated issue or the genes have spread to other crops. [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 12:53 pm
To halt its spread, the federal government's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued emergency restrictions on many live fish shipments from the eight Great Lakes states. [read post]