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9 Feb 2016, 6:25 am
” Specifically, amendments provide that the practice of veterinary medicine does not include: A person who conducts routine vaccinations or testing of poultry or livestock for the purposes of disease control activity under the supervision of an official state or federal agency or department of agriculture. [read post]
7 Feb 2016, 10:01 pm
Department of Agriculture, recently explained how modifying the potato so it contains the Bt toxin — a protein that comes from a bacteria and is used in both organic production and biotech (GMO) crops — can help protect the plants from insects. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 10:00 pm
Investigations by the CDPH’s Food and Drug Branch and the California Department of Food and Agriculture showed environmental samples collected at Organic Pastures yielded E. coli O157:H7 isolates that had PFGE patterns indistinguishable from the patient isolates. [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 10:02 pm
Department of Agriculture and Health & Human Services — and other federal entities seemingly unrelated to food safety such as the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration — have a patch-worked maze of rules and enforcement capabilities. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 10:02 pm
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the grant awards Wednesday, also saying that President Obama’s 2017 budget proposes investing $700 million for the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 9:45 pm
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) finalized new standards aimed at curbing Salmonella and Campylobacter—one of the main causes of bacterial foodborne illness—in certain poultry products, a move that it predicts will prevent 50,000 illnesses per year. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 7:06 am
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced the finalization of new federal standards to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in ground chicken and turkey products, as well as in raw chicken breasts, legs, and wings. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 10:00 pm
Department of Agriculture. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 9:30 pm
Three citizen petitions prompted the agency, working alongside the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to explore officially defining the potentially false and misleading term. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 9:54 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA), the federal agency responsible for the enforcement of laws pertaining to farming, agriculture, and food production, estimates that more than 9 billion animals will be slaughtered in the U.S. this year. [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 4:23 pm
Department of Agriculture ended. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 7:43 pm
During the preparation, transportation and storage of prepared foods, the organism can multiply to reach a threshold needed to cause infection. [4] The danger posed by the risk of Listeria in ready-to-eat meats has prompted the USDA to declare the bacterium an adulterant in these kinds of meat products and, as a result, to adopt a zero-tolerance policy for the presence of this deadly pathogen. [7, 29] A USDA Baseline Data Collection Program done in 1994 documented Listeria… [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 6:54 am
In addition to the SSI fraud alleged, the Massachusetts woman is also alleged to have defrauded the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or what people used to be called food stamps program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 1:59 pm
Department of Agriculture from spending funds for inspection of horse slaughter plants.This effectively prevents the resumption in the United States of horse slaughter for human consumption – a practice that is inherently cruel, particularly given the difficulty of properly stunning horses before slaughter, and dangerous because horses are routinely given drugs over their lifetimes that can be toxic to humans. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 10:03 pm
Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 10:01 pm
Department of Agriculture. [read post]
14 Jan 2016, 10:01 pm
Department of Agriculture. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 10:03 pm
Department of Agriculture tested for pesticides in 10,619 samples of food in 2014: 8,582 samples of fruits and vegetables; 314 samples of oats; 314 samples of rice; 1,055 samples of infant formula; and 354 samples of salmon. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 10:03 pm
Department of Agriculture. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 10:00 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. [read post]
