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New Acting Food Safety Under Secretary Speaks on HIMP
Meat industry trade publication Meatingplace is publishing an interview series with Brian Ronholm, new Acting Under Secretary of Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The interview focuses...
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HIMP Debate Sneaks Into FY 2014 Budget Negotiations for USDA, FDA
Members of the Safe Food Coalition and the Worker Health and Safety Coalition wrote to members of Congress this week, asking them not to reduce the budget for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food...
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FY 2014 Appropriations Bill Includes Directives for USDA, FDA
Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees released their consolidated appropriations bill for FY 2014 on Monday night, and the House of Representatives passed it with bipartisan...
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The HACCP Inspection Models Project Has More Problems Than Solutions
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) intends to implement a sweeping and total change to its food safety program by drastically modifying carcass-by-carcass...
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Poultry Processing Line Speeds: How Fast is Too Fast?
There are many arguments, pro and con, about efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to renovate its meat processing inspection process. In my last...
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Debate Grows Over Poultry Worker Safety Under Proposed HIMP Regulations
Last week, organizations representing consumers and farm workers convened in Washington, D.C., to speak with members of Congress and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials about the threat they feel...
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100-Plus Groups Ask Obama to Ditch New Poultry Rules
More than 100 organizations signed a letter sent to President Obama on Thursday asking the White House to withdraw the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposed rule on the “Modernization of Poultry...
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The Hard Truth About Authentic Modernization of Poultry Inspection
A healthy progression of events is occurring in the world of food safety. There are specific issues being debated over the Modernization of Poultry Slaughter proposal. The scientific community is...
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68 Members of Congress Ask Vilsack to Withdraw Poultry Inspection Rule
A bipartisan group of 68 members of Congress wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday, asking him to suspend action on the proposed Modernization of Poultry Slaughter...
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Is HIMP Circling the Drain?
The current volley of documents and letters, concerning line speed and worker safety, is telling. It shows us volumes about the push for the HACCP Based Models Project (HIMP) into law. It also shows...
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USDA Petitioned to Block Imported Meat From Privatized Inspection Systems
Food and Water Watch has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revoke equivalency status for four meat inspection programs in Canada, Australia and New Zealand because they have replaced...
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USDA Sends Poultry Inspection Rule to OMB
The U.S. Department of Agriculture submitted a draft final version of its Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review today. The proposal to...
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Groups Ask OMB, USDA to Release Revised Poultry Rule for Public Comment
Organizations representing workers and consumers want the Department of Agriculture to follow the Food and Drug Administration’s lead by releasing the revised poultry inspection rule for public...
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FSIS Poultry Rule Requires More Pathogen Testing, Introduces Voluntary...
The new poultry inspection rule announced today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires additional microbiological testing at all poultry processing facilities and introduces a fifth inspection...
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Reactions Vary to USDA’s Poultry Inspection Rule
The U.S. Department of Agriculture published the final rule of its Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection on Thursday, requiring all poultry processing plants to engage in additional...
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Food & Water Watch Sues USDA Over New Poultry Inspection Rule
Food & Water Watch (FWW) filed a lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture on Thursday that would stop the implementation of the agency’s New Poultry Inspection System (NPIS). The new poultry...
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USDA: Food Safety at Hog HIMP Plants ‘On Par’ With Other Inspection Systems
The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Pont (HACCP) Inspection Models Project (HIMP) project in hog slaughter establishments will continue, announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is its latest...
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New Book Explores Food Safety and the True Cost of Cheap Meat
Reading “The Chain: Farm, Factory and the Fate of Our Food,” a new book from journalist Ted Genoways, one begins to wonder who is treated better: the millions of hogs consumed in America each year, or...
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Q&A with Ted Genoways on Food Safety in Pork Processing, Part 1
(This is Part 1 of an interview with journalist and author Ted Genoways. Part 2 of the interview will be posted by Food Safety News on Friday, Feb. 6.) Ted Genoways is the author of “The Chain: Farm,...
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USDA Inspectors Condemn Hog Plant HIMP Model
Last Friday, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) released affidavits from four federal inspectors from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s high-speed inspection pilot program who have come...
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