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1 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
That question seems to have been put out there for public debate in quotes attributed to Betsy Booren of the American Meat Institute (AMI) Foundation in a recent USA Today story by Elizabeth Weise that can be read here. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
 According to a July 15 update to public calendar on the FSIS website, only FSIS administrator Al Almanza met with industry and consumer representatives, foreign governments, and with some specific groups like the American Meat Institute during the second quarter. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
"Each container holds six individually wrapped pieces of duck breast meat, weighing an average of .66 pounds each. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
Betsy Booren, Director of Scientific Affairs at the American Meat Institute, received a long-awaited letter from the Food Safety Inspection Service. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) signaled that the meat industry's 2005 request to use low-dose irradiation as a processing aid to reduce unwanted microbes -- and not have to label the meat as irradiated -- was not getting much traction.Late last week, FSIS finally issued its official decision on the petition: denied.The American Meat Institute Foundation (AMI) had sought acceptance for chilled beef carcasses… [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
That is the conclusion of a commentary on the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 (FSMA) published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
The OMB has not approved the proposal, which is opposed by the American Meat Institute as well as some of the country's trade partners. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
 -----------------------------------------Chris Waldrop is the director of the Food Policy Institute, Consumer Federation of America [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
Gillibrand introduces a bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to revise the definition of "adulterated" to include contamination with E. coli strains that cause human illnessMeat lobby responds, eating its own E. coli-contaminated wordsThe American Meat Institute (AMI - representing 95 percent of the red meat industry) responded in June to the proposed bill with its trademark rhetoric: "We share Sen. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) aim to reduce foodborne illnesses and deaths from microbial contamination.The projects:Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., $1,488,743 - This project will study how E. coli is transmitted from chickens to humans by analyzing bacteria found on chicken products, including meat and eggs, and evaluating these strains. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 12:32 pm by Michael Markarian
That’s exactly what the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act aims to do. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 2:24 pm by Lovechilde
Big processing companies like Tyson and Swift — along with grain trader Cargill and trade associations such as the American Meat Institute and the National Chicken Council — have been lobbying furiously to bury the rules. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
I think it's pretty easy when you think of meat to think of protein. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 7:43 am by othernations
What’s next, factory farmed horse meat? [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
Greg Henderson, editor and associate publisher of Drovers CattleNetwork, rankles at charges made against livestock production that link it to E. coli contamination of raw vegetables, including sprouts.He said that while "many pundits seem eager to vilify livestock production, they don't seem nearly as interested in telling the American public that technology has a solution for much of our E. coli contamination. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture responsible for meat and poultry, which are not covered by the Food and Drug Administration and the FSMA. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
Sometimes events just run over the best planned lobbying strategy.Take the American Meat Institute (AMI) for example. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
 How exactly do the American Meat Institute and its members exert pressure on UDSA and its decision-making? [read post]