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FSIS Issues Draft Guidance to Industry for Responding to Consumer Complaints

Posted on March 11, 2019

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is concerned with an increase in recent years in the number of recalls of meat and poultry products

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USDA and FDA Provide Additional Details on Joint Regulation of Cell-Cultured Meat

Posted on March 8, 2019

As we previously reported, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a November 16, 2018

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Enforcement Activity by the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service Against Imported Siluriformes (Catfish) for “Failure to Present” Violations

Posted on February 25, 2019

As reported here, the domestic and import inspection program for Siluriformes fish and fish products (including catfish) was transferred from FDA to USDA in response to a congressional

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FSIS Announces Move from Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis to Whole Genome Sequencing for Analyzing Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli (STEC) and Salmonella Isolates

Posted on December 17, 2018

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) determines the order of all of the DNA building blocks (nucleotides) in an organism’s entire genome in a single laboratory process. A comparison of the DNA

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New Report Reveals Sources of Foodborne Illnesses

Posted on November 13, 2018

On November 9, 2018, the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaborations (IFSAC) released a report on foodborne illnesses caused by four pathogens. The data in the report, titled, “Foodborne illness

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USDA Updates Poultry Line Speed Standards

Posted on October 1, 2018

On August 21, 2014, USDA-FSIS published a final rule called the “Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection” (79 FR 49566, Aug. 21, 2014) which amended the Agency’s poultry regulations to establish

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USDA and FDA Announce Joint Meeting on Animal Cell Culture Technology

Posted on September 11, 2018

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they will hold a joint meeting on October 23-24, 2018, to discuss the use

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FDA Takes Proactive Approach, Releases Statement on Voluntarily Recalled Whey Powder

Posted on July 25, 2018

In an unusual move, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., released a statement on July 24 regarding the voluntary recall of certain products that contain whey powder that may be contaminated

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Groups Petition FSIS to Change “Product of the USA” Policy

Posted on July 19, 2018

The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and American Grassfed Association (AGA) have petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to change its standard for making

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Trump Administration Proposes to Consolidate Food Safety Authority into One Agency

Posted on June 28, 2018

In a June 21, 2017 document titled “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21^st Century: Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations,” the Trump Administration proposes to replace the U.S.

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