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States to Grade their Own Inspectors
After years of scant federal oversight, Georgia food inspectors soon will come under scrutiny from new regulators: themselves.
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To Fill Food Safety Gap, Processors Pay Inspectors
Clipboard in hand, Debra Anderson spent three hours one recent sunny morning trooping through a field of romaine lettuce looking for trouble. The New ... continue reading »
Some See Lack of Progress in Reducing Food Safety Risks
Rates of food-borne illnesses have remained roughly level since 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, revealing what... continue reading »
Food Safety Efforts Have Stalled in Recent Years, CDC Says
Efforts to reduce the number of food-borne illnesses in the United States have stalled in the past three years, and some illnesses are on the upswing,... continue reading »
Bigger Government to Make Food Safer Isn’t the Answer, Critics Say
The Food and Drug Administration has been the subject of withering criticism in recent years for its failure to protect the nation's food supply in th... continue reading »
PBH Discusses Fruit and Vegetable Board
Produce for Better Health (PBH) Foundation has announced its intention to begin a seven-month dialog with the fruit and vegetable industry about the p... continue reading »
USCIS Reminds all U.S. Employers of Requirements to Use Revised Form I-9
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a reminder that the revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, went into effect A... continue reading »
A&M President: FDA Should Quit Regulating Food Safety
Let regulatory agencies play to their strengths, Texas A&M University’s president told House Agriculture Committee members this week.
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Preliminary Study Finds Little E. coli in Animals
Early results from a study show that just a tiny fraction of wild animals along the central coast have a strain of E. coli that caused the 2006 spinac... continue reading »
State, UC Davis Partner on Food Safety
The California Department of Food and Agriculture and the University of California Davis’s Center for Produce Safety have agreed to work together... continue reading »
