The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the availability of the final guidelines to assist meat and poultry establishments that want to improve operations by using in-plant video monitoring.
The U.S. government has announced that it will buy a $40 million “bonus” purchase of chicken, on top of the chicken it normally buys for feeding programs, including soup kitchens and school lunches.
Superior Farms creates new opportunities for itself rather than waiting for them to come. As one of the country’s largest lamb processors, any action Superior Farms takes has a ripple effect throughout the industry.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the USDA knew about the presence of Salmonella in Cargill Meat Solutions’ Springdale, Ark., plant months before last week’s large recall of ground turkey products.
In an effort to improve the system that tracks where diseased and at-risk animals are, where they have been, and when, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced a proposed rule that would establish new regulations for disease traceability of U.S. livestock moving interstate.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing a new rule to establish common, easy-to-understand names for raw meat and poultry products that include injections, marinades, or have otherwise incorporated added solutions which may not be visible to the consumer.
Pork stockpiles in the U.S. rose 13 percent at the end of April from a year earlier, the government said, as adverse weather and high prices reduced demand.
The American Meat Institute (AMI) gave its support to the 147 members of the U.S. House of Representatives who wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack seeking a timeline for completion of a long-overdue economic impact analysis of one of the most controversial and onerous regulatory proposals that USDA has ever published.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold two public meetings to hear public comments on the proposed regulation for a mandatory inspection program of catfish and catfish products.
