Articles Tagged with ''FSIS''

USDA food safety and scientific research personnel will be moved out of Washington to locations across the country, including to a new food safety center in Iowa.

Consumer complaints to the Food Safety and Inspection Service rose about 40% in fiscal 2025, which ended Sept. 30, according to a brief report issued by the agency.

In a victory for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court tossed a preliminary injunction that would have prevented the removal of bargaining rights from about 800,000 federal employees, including those at USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities.

President Donald Trump is proposing to slash non-defense spending by nearly 23% in a fiscal 2026 budget that contains $5 billion in cuts to USDA programs, including agricultural research, international food aid, conservation technical assistance to farmers, and rural development. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again initiative is a clear winner in the White House plan. 

USDA is withdrawing the salmonella framework it proposed last summer after years of study, drawing praise from the broiler industry but sparking concern from consumer advocates.

The Agriculture Department has since 2019 lagged in finalizing new standards for salmonella or campylobacter in meat and poultry products, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Wednesday that recommended the agency assess human health risks that may stem from the lack of new standards.

Repeated findings of inadequate sanitation practices like meat and fat residue on equipment and structural problems contributed to the listeria outbreak from products made at a Boar’s Head facility in Virginia last summer, according to a USDA report. 

Workers on evisceration lines at poultry and swine plants are at increased risk for musculoskeletal disorders, studies released by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service conclude.

Mike Spier, current vice president of overseas operations at U.S. Wheat Associates, was elected as the group’s next president and CEO by the board of directors. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced staff changes. Naturipe promoted Jim Roberts to president. 

The Congressional Hunger Center named Katharine Emerson, chief of staff for World Food Program USA, as the new chairwoman. The American Agricultural Law Association welcomed its new president-elect, Ashley Ellixson of Arizona, and directors, Chelsea Good of Kansas and Kale Van Bruggen of Minnesota.