The Russell County Butchery submitted a petition that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) took in on Sept. 5. It requests that FSIS change the guidance for determining whether a poultry slaughter or processing operation is exempt from inspection requirements of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) to allow small and tiny establishments to

An operation focused on finding counterfeit and substandard food and beverages has removed many products from the supply chain. Operation Opson XIII, coordinated by Europol, seized around 22,000 tons of food and 850,000 liters of beverages. In total, goods valued at more than €91 million ($98.3 million) were removed from the market. An alleged 11

Several years ago, I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ conference in Boston.  My talk was primarily an overview of where food safety has come since the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in 1993.   At one point I introduced an article I found in 1993 at the beginning of the Jack

For photos of other products subject to this alert, use link in story. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. FSIS is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country. The