Food & Water Watch Says Privatized Poultry Inspection Jeopardizes Food Safety
The advocacy organization Food & Water Watch has released a statement saying that privatized meat inspections jeopardize food safety. Food Poisoning Bulletin has been telling you about the...
View ArticleFood & Water Watch Opposes Poultry Slaughter Line Speeds
Food & Water Watch is opposing the National Chicken Council petition to increase poultry slaughter line speeds. The petition was filed on September 1, 2017 with the USDA’s Food Safety and...
View ArticleMembers of Congress Ask USDA to Delay Salmonella Plan
Several members of Congress sent a letter this month to the USDA, asking for a delay in the Salmonella Action Plan that Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is going to implement. The Plan’s first...
View ArticleFSIS Administrator Misinterpreted NIOSH Line-Speed Study
John Howard, director of the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), sent a letter to Al Almanza, FSIS administrator last week, telling him that the USDA’s Food Safety...
View ArticleProblems with George’s Chicken HIMP Plant in Virginia
Food & Water Watch has released information about problems with a chicken processing plant that is part of the HACCP-based Inspection Models Project (HIMP) that the USDA is promoting as a...
View ArticleUSDA Sends HIMP Poultry Rule to OMB
The USDA has submitted a draft final version of the HAACP Based Models Project (HIMP), the Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection Rule to the Office of Management and Budget today. That rule has...
View ArticleConsumers Advocates Try to Stop Filthy Chicken Rule
Representatives from consumer advocate organizations met with staff from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) yesterday to express their opposition to the poultry privatization rule...
View ArticleCongress Members Ask for More Answers on Poultry Inspection
Fifteen members of Congress sent a letter last week to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack about the new poultry inspection system that has been criticized by consumer, food safety, and workplace...
View ArticleUSDA Inspectors Say HIMP Compromises Food Safety
Three current and one retired USDA officials are criticizing the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Inspection Models Project (HIMP) at hog processing facilities. HIMP increases line speeds and...
View ArticleCFA Analyzes USDA Meat and Poultry Inspection Program
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has released an in-depth analysis of the USDA’s primary meat and poultry food safety regulation program. That program was implemented after the 1993 E. coli...
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