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Investigation: USDA Quietly Eliminated 60 Percent of Foreign Meat Inspections
Sending U.S. Department of Agriculture officials overseas to inspect meat and poultry plants whose products are destined for American consumers has long been a bedrock of our modern import safety...
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Letter From The Editor: USDA Drops Ball on Foreign Meat Safety
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Letter From The Editor: “The Blob” in 2012
The 1958 science fiction movie “The Blob” remains a classic because it introduced the great Steve McQueen in a leading role. Probably because the horror flick about a giant amoeba-like space alien...
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FSIS Makes Cut to Foreign Meat Safety Audits Public
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it has stopped annual food safety audits for foreign countries shipping meat to the U.S. and will now do these audits just once every three years. The...
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Canada’s Food Inspection Agency Given Lowest Passing Grade in U.S. Audit
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received an “adequate” rating – the lowest passing grade – in the latest audit by the U.S. government to determine its equivalency on food safety standards,...
View ArticleFrance’s food safety system found equivalent to USA for veal, pork and...
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service released a new on-site equivalence verification audit for France. It did not find any deficiencies that represented an immediate threat to public health. The...
View ArticleUSDA audits world’s third smallest country for pork exports
Two-way trade between the United States and the micro-state of San Marino is a mere $7 million a year. And a scant amount of that involves any food or agricultural product whatsoever. The world’s...
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USDA conducts on-site food safety audit for Germany’s processed meat exports
A new USDA audit of Germany’s food safety systems for processed meat products exported to the United States did not find much to cause concern. The on-site verification audit of Germany’s inspection...
View ArticleAuditor sent to Buenos Aires to double check on Argentina’s meat exports
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) sent one of its auditors back to Argentina this past December to confirm that the South American country was making the corrective actions requested in...
View ArticleUruguay’s inspections of beef and lamb found “equivalent to that of United...
Uruguay exports raw and processed beef and lamb products to the United States, and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) finds no reason that those shipments cannot continue. The FSIS...
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Investigation: USDA Quietly Eliminated 60 Percent of Foreign Meat Inspections
Sending U.S. Department of Agriculture officials overseas to inspect meat and poultry plants whose products are destined for American consumers has long been a bedrock of our modern import safety...
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Letter From The Editor: USDA Drops Ball on Foreign Meat Safety
We practice at least two types of journalism here. Mostly we do daily journalism, finding out what we can and bringing it to you in the same news cycle. We are also are able to do some investigative...
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Letter From The Editor: “The Blob” in 2012
The 1958 science fiction movie “The Blob” remains a classic because it introduced the great Steve McQueen in a leading role. Probably because the horror flick about a giant amoeba-like space alien...
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FSIS Makes Cut to Foreign Meat Safety Audits Public
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it has stopped annual food safety audits for foreign countries shipping meat to the U.S. and will now do these audits just once every three years. The...
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Canada’s Food Inspection Agency Given Lowest Passing Grade in U.S. Audit
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received an “adequate” rating – the lowest passing grade – in the latest audit by the U.S. government to determine its equivalency on food safety standards,...
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