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13 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
September 13, 2011, will go down in the history of food safety as a very significant day.It will be remembered by many as the day that Secretary Tom Vilsack of the U.S. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 12:07 pm by Judicial Watch Blog
Obama’s Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, claims that increasing the number of food-stamp recipients actually helps the economy, strengthens communities and creates jobs. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
"The group urged Vilsack to keep supporting work on Codex issues at USDA in the face of budgetary challenges. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 6:07 pm
Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that rural electric cooperative utilities will receive funding that will benefit more than 19,000 rural consumers in 14 states. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack paid a visit to the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) in Battle Creek, Michigan Monday to highlight the institute's contribution to food safety.The institute uses the first-ever national food protection curriculum to train food protection professionals at all levels of government, in an effort to standardized food safety practices. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 6:08 pm by Tracy Coenen
Recently, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated in a interview on MSNBC that food stamps and welfare are stimulus programs. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 5:15 pm
In comments delivered recently at the IAFP conference, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said: FSIS, together with FDA and CDC, have kept an eye on non-O157 STEC for several years. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 6:31 am by Judicial Watch Blog
Obama’s Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, refers to the plant, which is still under construction, as a “waste-to-energy bioprocessing facility. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
Susan Vaughn Grooters, director of research and education with STOP Foodborne Illness, will be the consumer representative on the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF), Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
 In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Thurdsay, consumer groups call attention to a recent petition submitted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest that asked USDA to use its interpretive rulemaking authority to declare four separate strains of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella -- Hadar, Heidelberg, Newport, and Typhimurium -- as adulterants under both the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has every reason to worry about tuberculosis, brucellosis, scabies, pseudorabies, hog cholera and other animal diseases. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has every reason to worry about tuberculosis, brucellosis, scabies, pseudorabies, hog cholera and like animal diseases. [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
Instead Vilsack did a little tap dance about an eventual action on non-O157 E. coli stains.The massive recall was only hours away when Vilsack spoke. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
North Carolina State University (NCSU) has received a $25 million federal grant to study how human noroviruses are transmitted and survive in food, with a goal of finding better ways to control them and reduce the number of foodborne illnesses they cause.The grant was announced Wednesday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at the annual conference of the International Association for Food Protection in Milwaukee.Human noroviruses cause more than 21 million illnesses each year, and… [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Wednesday highlighted the need to test meat for non-O157 strains of E. coli bacteria.Speaking to a group of scientists and industry members at the International Association for Food Protection conference in Milwaukee, Vilsack said the U.S. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 7:03 am by Zoe Tillman
When the full video was released, however, Sherrod received a number of apologies, including from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and President Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
 USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the winners of the competition last month. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 1:00 am by Lawrence Solum
Yet, when it comes to genetic engineering, the administration’s secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, has shown a willingness to put science and the sober analyses of his own agency aside, and instead regulate in deference to special interests as well as the preferences of political appointees. [read post]
10 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
Bachman visited during a 10-stop, three-day campaign.Bachman is no stranger to Marshalltown, and probably knows all about the original Maid-Rite cooking vessel that stands in violation of the Iowa food code.Ever since Tom Vilsack stepped down as Iowa's governor five years ago, state food safety officials have been trying to force Taylor's to adopt a code-compliant cooking vessel now used by virtually every other Maid Rite franchise in Iowa and surrounding… [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 1:46 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
"Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will make the announcement in a conference call at 8:30 a.m. today (7 July 2011). [read post]