American Meat Institute (AMI) General Members yesterday voted unanimously to proceed with a merger with the North American Meat Association (NAMA), slated to occur Jan. 1, 2015.
During a Jan. 14 event held at USDA headquarters and called "Safety Datapalooza," FSIS officials announced that several years worth of data on Salmonella and Campylobacter is now available to industry and the public via Data.gov.
Today an alliance of food manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators published a toolkit to help businesses in the food sector reduce the amount of food waste sent to landfill.
Green Bay, WI-based Cherney Microbiological Services, Ltd. today announced that it is expanding its laboratory testing services by adding a location in Clovis, NM.
Scientists at Purdue University have just published research in the Journal of Animal Science explaining how they used a three-phage cocktail to reduce E. coli O157:H7 in experimentally contaminated ground beef and spinach.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday released the latest revision of Directive 7120.1, "Safe and Suitable Ingredients Used in The Production of Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products."
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today confirmed details of a new round of tests of beef products for horse meat contamination. The tests have been requested by the European Commission as part of the follow-up to last year’s horse meat incident where a number of beef products sold across Europe were found to have been deliberately adulterated with horse meat.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) intends to finalize a proposed rule by the end of the year that seeks to create a new speedier inspection system at poultry slaughter plants, according to Brian Ronholm, USDA's acting undersecretary for food safety.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) today released an update on an ongoing outbreak of hepatitis A that began over a year ago. More than 1,300 hepatitis A cases have been reported in 11 Member States since January 2013, with 240 confirmed cases related to the ongoing outbreak.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it is amending its current food additive regulations to allow the safe use of ionizing radiation on crustaceans (e.g., crab, shrimp, lobster, crayfish, and prawns) to control foodborne pathogens and extend shelf life.
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