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Showing only stories from the Food category: Food Safety -- show all categories
September 9, 2022 —
CDC has recently published a summary of CDC-coordinated investigations of possible multistate outbreaks caused by Salmonella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, and Listeria monocytogenes. During...
December 15, 2020 —
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in a line of domestic pigs, referred to as GalSafe pigs, which may be used for food or...
September 22, 2020 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Food Safety (OFS) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have released a plan to decrease Salmonella, one of the leading causes of foodborne...
June 24, 2020 —
Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., issued the following statement regarding food export restrictions pertaining to COVID-19. [Source: USDA...
May 13, 2020 —
A new freeze-resistant Trichinella species has been discovered in wolverines by Agricultural Research Service scientists and their colleagues. Trichinella are parasites that cause the disease...
April 3, 2019 —
In a basic survey of more than a thousand pork kidney samples, almost no veterinary drug residues were found and none at levels that even approached U. S. regulatory limits, according to a study just...
November 19, 2018 —
Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a public meeting to discuss the use of livestock and poultry cell lines to develop cell-cultured food...
July 18, 2018 —
The Trump administration has proposed a fundamental change to the mission of the Food and Drug Administration, one that would transfer most of the responsibility for regulating food safety to the...
July 10, 2018 —
To maintain consumer confidence, the pork industry needs to train employees on how to properly give shots so no needles are ever broken. (Source: PORK, July 9, 2018 by JoAnn Alumbaugh) Packers have...
March 21, 2018 —
On March 22, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service will host a webinar from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET on the proposed rule "Modernization of Swine Slaughter Inspection" (83 FR 4780,...
February 15, 2017 —
Eating healthier just got easier with the addition of one more pork cut to the list of Heart-Check Certified products by the American Heart Association. The Pork Checkoff is working with the American...
September 14, 2016 —
The National Pork Board has published a Roaster Pig Food Safety Factsheet outlining tips to promote safe handling and proper cooking of roaster pigs. The factsheet describes four core practices of...
August 31, 2016 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced that it will soon begin sharing new levels of food safety data specific to slaughter and...
July 6, 2016 —
Research by Kansas State University's Institute of Computational Comparative Medicine is challenging conventional thought regarding human food safety and drug residues found in cattle and swine...
August 31, 2015 —
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the most sweeping reform of our food safety laws in more than 70 years, was signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011. FSMA aims to ensure the...
April 15, 2015 —
USDA has issued a notice dated April 13 that outlines sampling protocols for salmonella as part of the nationwide raw pork products exploratory sampling project (RPPESP), which was
December 11, 2013 —
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently released its “Salmonella Action Plan” in an effort to reduce the number of individuals sickened by Salmonella in meat and...
January 9, 2013 —
Food safety and animal welfare groups petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday seeking limits on an animal feed additive that is the subject of concerns about human and animal...
May 23, 2012 —
The health of the animals within the food animal production system impacts many aspects of the system far removed from the animals themselves. To promote high productivity in animal agriculture,...
April 11, 2012 —
Faculty from Iowa State's College of Veterinary Medicine and Michigan State University did a study on the link between lesions in pig carcasses and contamination of the same carcasses with...
January 25, 2012 —
There’s long been talk about creating a single federal food safety agency. That may become a reality if Congress grants the Obama Administration authority to reorganize the government. Such...
September 28, 2011 —
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has replaced the Fast Antimicrobial Screen test (FAST) with the Kidney Inhibition Swab (KIS) test for swine carcasses at processing establishments...
August 23, 2011 —
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a notice (44-11) to inspection program personnel (IPP) notifying them that on September, 11, 2011, it will replace the Fast Antimicrobial...
May 24, 2011 — Cindy Cunningham
New cooking guidelines from the nation's food-safety agency confirm Pork Checkoff research that shows pork can be consumed safely when cooked to an internal temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit,...
April 27, 2011 —
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a final rule today that will broaden the market for smaller state-inspected plants. By participating in this...
March 30, 2011 —
To improve the nation's access to safe food, the General Accountability Office is recommending in a new report the creation of a single federal agency to oversee it and run a unified food-safety...
December 22, 2010 —
A bill that would overhaul the nation's food-safety laws for the first time since the Great Depression came roaring back to life Sunday as Senate Democrats struck a deal with Republicans that helped...
December 1, 2010 —
The U.S. Senate today approved the Food Safety Modernization Act by a vote of 73 to 25. The legislation gives the Food and Drug Administration more authority, including the power to compel the...
September 15, 2010 —
As members of Congress return to D.C. for the year's last few months of legislative work, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D.-Minn.) and executives from Hormel and Supervalu are pushing for passage of a food...
July 7, 2010 —
A researcher, Isabel Jimnez Seres, at the School of Veterinary and Animal Science at the Universidad Autnoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca has detected the parasite which causes trichinellosis in pork...
The complete archive, including older stories, is here
Category abbreviations: AASV=Membership information, announcements, and other information from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians; Abs.=Abstracts from journal articles of general interest to swine veterinarians.; ALERT=Used to create email alerts; An.H.=Animal Health; Conf.=Conference announcements and other continuing education opportunities; FAD="Foreign" Animal Disease and other news most significant to regions outside of North America.; Food=Food Safety; Gov.=Information about legislation, regulations, and rulemaking that may affect the swine industry or swine veterinarians.; Hum.H.=Human health; Ind.=News from the pork industry, including NPPC and Pork Board activities.; International=Information regarding swine health and production internationally.; Jobs=Position announcements, primarily seeking swine veterinarians.; Meet=Provides a short synopsis of meetings of importance to swine veterinarians.; News=Agriculture related news events.; Nutr.=Swine nutrition; OP-ED=Opinion or editorial articles expressing the thoughts of individual Association members.; Pharm.=Pharmaceuticals and biologicals; PRRS=Articles from the AASV PRRS Task Force; Practice=Information associated with practice management or development.; Research=Research topics of interest to swine veterinarians.; Students=Information of interest to AASV student members.; USDA=US Dept. of Agriculture activities of interest to swine veterinarians.; Welfare=Animal welfare issues