Food Safety And Inspection Service News
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The U.S. meat industry is renaming about 350 cuts of meat to make labels more consumer-friendly and less anatomically-focused, marking the first major overhaul of industry nomenclature in 40 years.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is increasing testing on meat imports to confirm that shipments don’t contain horse meat after products from burgers to lasagna were mislabled in Europe.
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The spending bill Congress passed shows $1.2 trillion in budget cuts that weren’t supposed to happen are now part of the political landscape.
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Congress is set to clear a measure to avoid a partial U.S. government shutdown, in a rare example of bipartisan and bicameral cooperation on federal spending.
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A provision in a spending bill passed by the Senate would avoid furloughs of U.S. meat inspectors as part of budget cuts, lowering the risk of disrupting plants run by companies including Tyson Foods Co.
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The U.S. will be legally obligated to inspect horse-slaughtering plants if Congress doesn’t act to reinstate a ban on the killing of the animals, which would only be used in meat for export, the Department of Agriculture said.
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Russia banned imports of U.S. pork and beef starting Feb. 11, saying the meats may contain a feed additive known as ractopamine.
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The recall of about 36 million pounds of Cargill Inc. turkey meat “shook people up” to the need for tougher poultry rules, said Elisabeth Hagen, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s undersecretary for food safety.
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Undercover video of inhumane handling at Central Valley Meat Co., a California slaughterhouse that supplies beef to the nation’s school lunch program, doesn’t show injured “downer” cattle entering the food supply, U.S. regulators said.
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Saudi Arabia halted imports of U.S. beef, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
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