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1 Jun 2010, 2:59 am
The USDA responded by launching a new school lunch food safety initiative that maintains the agency's zero tolerance policy for E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella, increases the sampling and testing frequency for finished product, and institutes stricter standards for source trimmings used in ground beef purchased by the Agriculture Marketing Service, the arm of the agency charged with sourcing food for federal nutrition programs. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:06 pm by Dan Flynn
Codex committee, but the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) no longer staffs Codex. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 2:14 pm by Susan Schneider
Donna Speed, the Director of Nutrition Services for the Mississippi State Board of Health, added to the conversation on connecting farmers to schools by talking about her role in the farm-to-preschool program. [read post]
4 May 2020, 9:06 pm by News Desk
” “I appreciate Chairwoman DeLauro’s proposed action plan for the Department of Agriculture,” said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 9:05 pm by News Desk
Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) are looking for volunteers to serve on the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. [read post]
7 May 2015, 10:03 pm by Lydia Zuraw
School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in the United States) and The Pew Charitable Trusts worked together to create the new Certified Responsible Antibiotic Use (CRAU) standard which will be verified by the Department of Agriculture. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 12:00 am by Mark Meyer
Department of Health and Human Services in 2005; (3) the World Health Organization in 2009; and (4) Food and Agriculture Organization in 2010.Due to the available scientific evidence and the findings of expert scientific panels establishing the health risks associated with the consumption of trans fat, the FDA concluded that there was no longer a consensus among qualified experts that partially hydrogenated oils were generally recognized as safe for any… [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 3:05 pm by Sarah Ryan
In 2006, the firm established “Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grants” to provide funding for programs that promote childhood nutrition in local communities.Companies that received a failing score on CSPI’s Food-Marketing Policy Report Card included Denny’s, which markets nutritionally poor items to children through its children’s menu, website games, and a children’s birthday club; Topps, which uses popular musicians to entice… [read post]
The guidance provides examples of non-covered establishments such as schools as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) school lunch program or school breakfast programs, transportation carriers such as trains or airplanes, lunch wagons (food trucks and sidewalk carts), and in-patient only food-service facilities located in hospitals. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 4:16 pm
"Acknowledging the work that goes on at USDA, she noted,From supporting the farmers that produce the food that we eat, to managing the school meal programs that give students the energy and the nutrition they need to get through the day, to providing greater access to fresh fruits and vegetables, to giving struggling families the assistance they need to put food on their table, and to protecting our food supply, the work of this department touches… [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 10:01 pm by News Desk
LeeAnn Jaykus, PhD LeeAnn Jaykus is a professor of food science for the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University. [read post]
23 Feb 2022, 9:02 pm by News Desk
In response to the recall, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is strongly encouraging WIC agencies in states, territories and tribal nations to take immediate action to ensure that WIC participants can exchange their recalled baby formula and can use WIC benefits to purchase products that have not been recalled. [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 9:00 pm by News Desk
With the implementation of the zero-tolerance standards for the school lunch program, the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service took food safety inspection many steps further than Food Safety and Inspection Service, which oversees testing and monitoring food safety in meat processing. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
"We want them (food-service managers and workers) to think about how to start using good-agricultural-practices criteria to evaluate and support local farmers," he said. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 3:26 pm
Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services, or the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to find a local district office near you. [read post]