U.S. says will use risk-based meat inspection plan
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In a move derided by meat packers and consumers, federal meat inspectors will start conducting "risk-based" inspections at 254 processing plants in April, under a plan detailed by the Agriculture Department on Thursday.
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A Bush administration import safety panel urged government agencies on Monday to work together to focus on the riskiest products in a "fundamental change" in import monitoring, following a spate of tainted or unsafe goods from China.
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Chinese food inspectors have banned meat products from seven U.S. companies from being imported into their country after finding a range of contamination issues in shipments checked on Saturday, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.
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Large U.S. farms that sell eggs will  be required to adopt stricter food safety measures to reduce  the risk of chicken egg shells being contaminated with  salmonella, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on  Monday.
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Japan moved a step closer to partially lifting a ban on U.S. beef imports after a government panel on Tuesday accepted U.S. assurances that a specific grade of U.S. beef would be free of mad cow disease.
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U.S. grocers and foodmakers would be required to put country-of-origin labels on cuts of red meat beginning September 30, 2008, under a bill approved by a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday.
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Canada's cattle and beef industries,  battered by the discovery of mad cow disease in 2003, would win  new access to the important U.S. market by this spring under a  plan Washington announced on Wednesday to relax a trade ban.
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As expected, FDA officials on Friday announced plans to improve the procedures used by the agency to monitor the safety of medications after they reach the market, the Newark Star-Ledger reports.
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The $32 billion American cattle  industry, on alert for five days over a possible second U.S.  case of mad cow disease, was hoping for a government  determination on Tuesday on whether the suspect animal was  infected.
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The Food and Drug Administration came under withering criticism by a House panel yesterday for its handling of recent food-safety violations, and the Bush administration later disclosed plans to establish a working group to review the safety of food and other imports.
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Top U.S. food companies, worried recent import scares may turn away customers, launched a plan on Tuesday to add teeth to existing safety guidelines and increase funding for bare-bones federal regulators.
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WASHINGTON - The US Department of Agriculture on Wednesday said it will formally publish on Jan. 4 a regulation that would allow Canada to resume imports of young live cattle to the United States, as well as expanded types of beef.
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Since mad cow disease turned up in the United States late last year, traced to a cow imported from Canada, federal regulators have issued rules to prevent the spread of the fatal disease, focusing
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The U.S Food and Administration's plan to consolidate laboratories used for testing food and other products would make it even more difficult for the understaffed agency to protect Americans from unsafe food, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns  will defend an administration plan to reopen the border to  Canadian cattle at a Senate hearing on Thursday, where he will  face questions about whether the action will expose the U.S.  beef industry to more cases of mad cow disease.
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Leaders of Minnesota&#39;s beef industry are assuring the public that the meat supply is safe after federal officials announced that a second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States.
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns  told a U.S. cattle industry group on Friday that he had  "concerns" about the government's plan to open the border on  March 7 to imports of beef from Canadian animals over 30 months  of age.