The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing a new requirement for the meat and poultry industry that, once enacted, will reduce the amount of unsafe food that reaches store shelves.
Nebraska state senators advanced a bill that would allow for a state meat inspection program and possibly a horse slaughter and processing facility, and the chair of the state's Agriculture Committee slammed the Humane Society of the United States in the process.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, an Arkansas City, Kan., establishment, is recalling approximately 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E.
In the 1990s, a meat-plant employee entering a work station might have to use a decontaminating foot wash. Now, plant employees have to navigate a boot-scrubbing system, put on personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, masks and goggles, and their movement is restricted to prevent any contamination.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will begin implementing its Public Health Information System (PHIS) by the end of this year.PHIS is designed to be a unified, real-time data
It has been a little over 40 years since Congress passed the Wholesome Meat Act, the major amendments to the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on December 15, 1967.
Energy efficiency is the first thing to come to mind when discussing facility lighting challenges, but what are some of the other issues protein (or food) processors face when choosing lighting solutions for their processing areas?
On October 7, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finally put the brakes on its 2007 rule to amend its regulations and penalties arising from an employer’s receipt of a “No-Match.” The No-Match letter informs employers that certain information submitted by the employee does not match Social Security Administration (SSA) or DHS records.
