Despite financial stress caused by the weakened economy, chicken establishments appear to be maintaining food safety procedures necessary to control Salmonella contamination.
The USDA has awarded a research grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to help reduce the occurrence and public health risks from Shiga toxin-producing E. coli along the entire beef production pathway.
In today’s world, safety seems to be something most people leave on the back burner. Although our world is an inherently dangerous place, the fact remains that, during the course of an average day, most people still never really worry about their own personal safety.
Cargill made major progress toward its 2015 Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) goals – five-year, companywide goals centered worker safety and environmental sustainability.
Butterball LLC celebrated food safety month through a children’s coloring contest and a series of employee challenges at the company’s Mount Olive, N.C. facility.
Senators Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) have introduced a bill to repeal the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, saying that it would save taxpayers $6 billion.
Pathogens, new testing technologies and the government’s rules for controlling them are changing at an unprecedented pace - one which has not seen before in the history of food processing.
