Items Tagged with 'legislation'

Bipartisan bill aims to ban cell-cultivated meat from being provided through the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program.

The Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act fights the illicit use of xylazine in humans while preserving access to the drug for use in animals.

Thirteen senators throw support behind the Healthy Poultry Assistance and Indemnification (HPAI) Act.

The Innovative FEED Act would create a category for zootechnical animal food substances, regulate these products as food ingredients, not animal drugs, and bring the FDA policy into the 21st century.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce agrees with North American Meat Institute, says bills will reduce competition.

The North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute) has released the following statement after the House Agriculture Committee favorably reported the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act.

A proposed law in Minnesota would invest in the future of the state's meat-cutting industry. 

With the Coronavirus in the news, now seems to be a good time to talk about disease defense and prevention. Coronaviruses are a family of zoonotic viruses (meaning transmitted between animals and humans) that can cause respiratory illness in humans. 

On June 22, 2018, FSIS issued Notice 32-18, Actions To Take in Raw Poultry Establishments Exceeding Salmonella Performance Standards, instructing FSIS personnel on what actions to take at establishments that are exceeding Salmonella performance standards and are thus in Category 3.