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15 Dec 2016, 9:30 pm
Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled three new rules—collectively called the “Farmer Fair Practices Rules”—aimed at protecting small, family chicken farms from the practices of larger processing companies. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 10:01 pm
They met with Ashley Peterson, senior vice president of the National Chicken Council and Lampkin Butts from Sanderson Farms. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 3:24 pm
The agency is concerned with the safety of any secondary products that include the recalled chicken products. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 10:00 pm
The Alliance for Food and Farming, which includes both conventional and organic farms, promotes the “exceptionally high level of compliance by farmers of fruits and vegetables to U.S. pesticide laws and regulations…” It also points out that the U.S. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 10:00 pm
“Without any authority to go onto farms for itself to see how animals are being treated,” he wrote, “the USDA has all but guaranteed that it will continue to approve ‘humane’ labels where portions of birds’ beaks and pig tails are cut off and animals live their entire lives indoors without enrichment before being roughly rounded up and loaded on to a truck for terrifying transportation to a violent death. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 8:19 am
The comment is just one voice in a loud outcry against the USDA’s label giveaway to the animal slaughter and by-product industry. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 9:03 pm
He’s run the agency since 2009. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 9:46 am
He represents the interests of a wide range of USDA entities: Farm Service Agency, Risk Management Agency / Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Rural Development Agency, Rural Business Service, Rural Utilities Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, the Food and Nutrition Service, and the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 1:24 pm
“Regulatory agencies and research organizations around the world have consistently determined carrageenan is a safe and highly functional food additive,” Bruner said. [read post]
23 Oct 2016, 10:00 pm
The USDA does not keep track of the number of urban farms in the United States. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 10:00 pm
USDA analysis of tissue samples from this animal identified the presence of desfuroylceftiofur, a marker residue for ceftiofur, in the kidney tissue at a level of 21.47 parts per million, the agency pointed out. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 10:00 pm
The agency estimates that China will import 825,000 tons of beef this year from all sources. [read post]
25 Sep 2016, 10:00 pm
Hormel Foods and Maple Leaf Farms have implemented pork product traceability back to the individual hog. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 10:03 pm
Coordinate with other local, state, territory, and federal agencies for produce safety activities. [read post]
26 Aug 2016, 10:00 pm
So, according to USDA, the only federal statute that exists to protect farm animals from unnecessary suffering at slaughter leaves the vast majority of those animals without any legal safeguard at all. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 1:56 pm
In response, the agency did absolutely nothing. [read post]
17 Aug 2016, 1:34 pm
Recent reports suggest that Iowa factory farming mogul Bruce Rastetter may be Trump’s leading candidate for Secretary of Agriculture, so his inclusion on the council is unsurprising. [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 10:01 pm
A fish farm at Dospat Dam in Bulgaria’s Rodope Mountains. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 10:50 am
During the IAFP session with Wal-Mart’s Yiannas and Foster Farms’ O’Connor, the CDC researcher said this year could be a “tipping point” in the fight against Salmonella, crediting USDA’s new standards, the impact of the Food Safety Modernization Act and changes by industry such as those implemented by Wal-Mart and Foster Farms. [read post]
7 Aug 2016, 10:01 pm
Although some activities carried out on a farm may classify the farm as a facility, the rule doesn’t pertain to operations that meet the FDA’s definition of a farm. [read post]
