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These impending changes regarding Salmonella are largely due to illnesses believed to be caused by customer confusion on the status of the products.

The FDA is issuing this alert advising consumers to not eat, and restaurants and food retailers to not sell, oysters harvested between 11/17/2022 and 12/7/2022 from harvest area TX 1, Galveston Bay, Texas due to possible norovirus contamination.

Opportunities include Understanding and Implementing Updated Appendix A&B Guidelines, Foreign Material Prevention & Control Workshop, Animal Agriculture Sustainability Summit and Securing the Future of Meat: Sustainability, Innovation and the Next Big Thing.

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute applauds the release of the proposed rule updating the food packages for the Women, Infants and Children’s Supplemental Nutrition program (WIC).

Nominations are open to the public and any interested person or organization may nominate qualified individuals.

Farm operations of all sizes, urban and rural, which produced and sold, or normally would have sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products in 2022, are included in the ag census.

The Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity proposed rule would revise regulations under the P&S Act by prohibiting certain prejudices and disadvantages against covered producers in the livestock, meat, and poultry markets.

Purchases will be made under the authority of Section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, with the purpose to encourage the continued domestic consumption of these products by diverting them from the normal channels of trade and commerce.

Food companies using sesame must ensure they are in compliance with the new regulatory requirements.

The department's Wage and Hour Division recovered $134,532 in wages for 45 workers and assessed $122,610 in civil money penalties.