The chicken industry, represented by the Washington D.C.-based National Chicken Council, is letting the world know it has “grave concerns” about USDA’s plans to declare Salmonella an adulterant in frozen, raw, breaded stuffed poultry products.
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Thcontinue readinge USDA publishes estimates of how much foodborne illness costs Americans. It does this for 15 pathogens, one at a time:
The Cost Estimates of Foodborne Illnesses data product provides detailed data about the costs of major foodbor
An Australian university has been awarded a grant to improve the effectiveness of a Salmonella Typhimurium vaccine in poultry. The aim is to lower the risk of foodborne pathogens and reduce the number of human Salmonella infections.
The University of
This week, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union filed a federal lawsuit to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s new swine slaughter modernization rule that eliminates line speed limits in pork slaughter plants
Raw ground beef is the probable source of a new 16-state Salmonella outbreak involving 57 illnesses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Thursday, along with a massive recall.
The recall is for mor
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Food and Drug Administration are teaming up in October for a joint public meeting on the use of cell culture techniques to develop products derived from livestock and poultry.
Set for Oct. 23-25,
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service released details last week regarding expected trade for agricultural products including feeds, feed grains and oilseeds.
The sixth case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE, during the past 15 years in the United States has been identified in a 6-year-old mixed breed beef cow in Florida. The positive test for so-called Mad Cow Disease comes six years after the m
The United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA") has given more than $450,000 for a research project designed to increase the safety of certain commercially farmed oysters from the Gulf Coast that are “bound for the premium half-shell market.”
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