Food & Water Watch is asking the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) to revoke the recognition of privatized inspection practices used in several countries that export red meat to the U.S. Those countries are Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; government officials there have replaced government meat inspectors with company employees. A petition was filed … Read more
Transatlantic Foods of New York is recalling 449,000 pounds of pork products for misbranding, in addition to the 222,000 pounds of uninspected pork and poultry products. The pork products used labels with false “no antibiotic” claims. No illnesses have been reported associated with the consumption of these products. You can see the long list of … Read more
Transatlantic Foods of New York is recalling about 222,000 pounds of pork and poultry products that were not federally inspected, according to the USDA. One of their establishments in New Jersey had not been issued an FSIS Grant of Inspection. That operation was producing product and using labels approved for use by, and bearing the … Read more
Bolzano Artisan Meats of Wisconsin is recalling 5,723 pounds of salami products for misbranding and because they were produced without the benefit of federal inspection. The products have the Wisconsin state inspection shield, but they “incorrectly bear the Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) program version of the USDA mark of inspection, which requires federal acceptance into … Read more
There is a problem with inspector shortages at the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). This fact threatens the safety of all Americans, since inspectors are on the front line against foodborne pathogens in the food supply. A letter sent to Representative Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Agriculture and Rural … Read more
Congress has acted to avoid the furlough of U.S. meat inspectors this summer by approving a $55 million shift in funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Without that action, the USDA would have had to schedule furloughs for all meat inspectors beginning in mid-July. Under federal law, plants that process meat, poultry and … Read more