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3 Jan 2016, 7:03 pm by Bill Marler
In 2013, Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, both faced charges stemming from a Salmonella outbreak caused by their Iowa egg farms in 2010. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 5:33 am by Bill Marler
In 2013, Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, both faced charges stemming from a Salmonella outbreak caused by their Iowa egg farms in 2010. [read post]
2 Jan 2016, 6:41 pm by Bill Marler
The family business, known as Quality Egg LLC, pleaded guilty in 2015 to a federal felony count of bribing a USDA egg inspector and to two misdemeanors of unknowingly introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce. [read post]
31 Dec 2015, 11:37 pm by Lydia Zuraw
And FDA and USDA will likely do some preliminary work on collecting additional on-farm antimicrobial drug use and resistance data. [read post]
State and federal agencies have long considered discharge from farm drainage tiles to fall under these exemptions. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 10:03 pm by Dan Flynn
Catfish inspections were called for in the 2008 Farm Bill, but the it’s taken until now to work out all the details with the U.S. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 9:30 pm by RegBlog
Department of Agriculture (USDA), stemmed from a 2002 law aiming to further transparency between consumers and food industries. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 10:02 pm by Lydia Zuraw
In September, FDA held a public meeting alongside USDA and CDC to discuss possible approaches for collecting additional on-farm antimicrobial drug use and resistance data. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 9:09 am by Michael Markarian
Meat Animal Research Center conducting ghoulish experiments on farm animals—with animals dying in steam chambers, of deformities, or left to starve or freeze to death—Congress took action to improve the welfare of animals at USDA Agricultural Research Service facilities including U.S. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 10:02 pm by News Desk
“While the new guidelines issued by the USDA are an important step, the USDA should declare Salmonella an adulterant as part of their work to protect American consumers from foodborne public health threats. [read post]
25 Nov 2015, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
“FSIS is committed to a smooth and gradual introduction to the new inspection program, which was mandated by the 2014 Farm Bill,” said Al Almanza, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 8:55 am by Susan Schneider
 David serves at the USDA Office of General Counsel as Associate General Counsel for International Affairs, Food Assistance, and Farm and Rural Programs. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 10:18 am by News Desk
The agency has also released an Environmental Impact Statement for the produce rule. [read post]
8 Nov 2015, 10:01 pm by Cookson Beecher
Instead, the agency states that “it won’t take exception to farmers” who comply with USDA’s National Organic Program standards. [read post]
2 Nov 2015, 11:45 am by Nancy E. Halpern, DVM, Esq.
Economic impact:  $44 billion in farm gate receipts (USDA NASS) Number of farms and ranches specializing in beef cattle: 619,172 (2012) Number of cattle & calf operations: 915,000 (2012) 29.7 million beef cows 9.3 million milk cows 5.8 million beef replacement heifers, up 4% from Jan. 2014 33.9 million head calf crop (2013) The average cow herd size: 40 head Value of U.S. beef exports: $5.711 billion (2013), up from $3.839 billion in… [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Jason Merrill, Worthy Burger’s executive chef, suggested that the package of beef collected from his walk-in cooler was contaminated at a “USDA-inspected” slaughterhouse and not at the farm where the grass-fed beef cattle were raised. [read post]
18 Oct 2015, 9:37 pm by Patti Waller
PulseNet is the national subtyping network of public health and food regulatory agency laboratories coordinated by CDC. [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 10:01 pm by Cookson Beecher
“If the science shows there’s not a problem, the agency will be flexible,” he said. [read post]
4 Oct 2015, 2:53 pm by Nancy E. Halpern, DVM, Esq.
The US poultry population at risk from avian influenza outbreaks was described on USDA’s website: The most recent Census of Agriculture reported 233,770 poultry farms in the United States in 2012. [read post]