USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service today issued a Final Rule to modify the labeling provisions for the mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) program.

Canada's beef industry is about to ask the federal government to approve the use of irradiation in meat-processing plants to kill E. coli bacteria in a full range of meat products.

Russia’s new restrictions on the feed additive ractopamine have reduced the number of Canadian plants eligible for exporting.

That amount is the annual cost to Canada's beef and pork industry since the U.S. imposed mandatory country of origin labeling requirements in 2008.

Russia is set to impose new restrictions on its meat imports, which are expected to be related to concerns over use of the feed additive ractopamine in Canadian livestock.

The World Trade Organization has ruled that the United States must bring its country-of-origin labeling rules into compliance with an earlier WTO ruling by May 23, 2013.

FSIS is alerting the public of a recall being conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Aliya's Foods Limited for approximately 4,865 pounds of frozen butter chicken and rice products imported from Canada that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The United States has banned exports from XL Foods following an outbreak of E. coli-related illnesses in Canada that could stem from the plant.

U.S. agricultural groups told the U.S. Trade Representative's Office that the country must fix mistakes made in the North American Free Trade Agreement by insisting in new trade talks with Canada on unrestricted access to its poultry and dairy market.

The CFIA has expanded the scope of the recall to now include the production dates of Aug. 27 and Aug. 29, 2012.