The two-year, 14-page petition to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) from Animal Partisan, an animal activist group based in Glen Allen, VA, has garnered its first
The owner of a burger restaurant linked to a large botulism outbreak in Saudi Arabia in 2024 has gone into liquidation.
The outbreak affected 75 people in Riyadh and one
Earlier this month, when the recommendations of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission were leaked, I had an unhappy exchange with
By Doug Farquhar
State legislatures introduced more than 350 bills related to food safety during the 2025 legislative sessions, with 73 being enacted as of August 2025.
General food safety
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent
Two men have been jailed and another two have received suspended prison sentences in England for diverting unfit meat back into the food chain.
Defendants were convicted earlier this year
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a rule to change post-mortem (after death) inspection requirements for swine slaughter establishments “to remove mandatory mandibular lymph node incision
Newton’s Third Law of Motion is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. An example of this is currently playing out with pesticides and food
If you are waiting for the promised summer release of the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, you can stop. The end of October is the new promised release date, according
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has reported enforcement data for half of fiscal year 2025, which is a little light on significant actions.
The agency’s
