Items Tagged with 'FSIS'

Can meat made with cultured animal cells be called a steak? The Food Safety and Inspection Service wants answers to that question and more than a dozen others as it tries to determine how to label cell-cultured meat and poultry products now being developed for commercialization in the U.S.

The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Saturday that Tyson Foods is recalling approximately 8.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products over concerns that they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The Department of Agriculture plans to review the use of language featured on meat labels that many producers have said does not adequately describe the product’s origin.

Tate Bennett has been tapped by the White House to serve as the Special Assistant to President Donald Trump for agriculture and agricultural trade.

Thirteen members of the United Food and Commercial Workers International union who work in meatpacking or food processing have died after contracting COVID-19, UFCW said on a media call today to press for personal protective equipment and testing.

The novel coronavirus is living up to its name, ushering in a new way of life for America’s food companies, most notably the meat industry.

Meat packers need federal inspectors to produce the pork chops, T-bone steaks and ground beef that consumers are counting on to be in grocery stores, but the USDA inspectors on the front line are being told they are on their own when it comes to securing masks to protect against the spread of COVID-19.

Meat and poultry processors struggle to keep employees safe during the COVID-19 pandemic and worry about a possible shortage of federal meat inspectors.