Tag Archive for: Food Safety

8 Reasons Manufacturing Is Great for America
It's critically important to create successful policy solutions for manufacturing to help this job machine thrive.
In a scathing rebuke of the importance of U.S. manufacturing in The New Yorker ("What's So Great About Manufacturing?") James…

The Not So COOL Reason You Won’t Know Where Your Steak Came From
Cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—mad cow disease—have been reported in Brazil as recently as 2014. When a cow was found to have died from the neurogenerative disease, which humans can contract by eating meat from sick animals, in…

1.7 million lbs of Frozen Chicken May Be Contaminated with Salmonella
Barber Foods is recalling 1,707,494 pounds of raw frozen chicken products after the U.S. Department of Agriculture received reports of a cluster of people in Minnesota and Wisconsin becoming ill with salmonella poisoning.
The Portland, Maine…

Beef Imports from FMD Infected Brazil & Argentina Approved
USDA Approval of Brazilian Beef Imports Coming Soon??
Foot & Mouth Disease Threat Alert!
USDA appears to be gearing up to do the unthinkable: allowing fresh beef imports from Brazil, a country contaminated with highly contagious Foot-and-Mouth…

China’s Latest Stomach-Churning Food Scandal: Frozen Meat From The 1970s
Some 800 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat have been seized by Chinese authorities, including one batch dating from the 1970s, state media reported.
The meat was bound for restaurants, retailers and supermarkets in Hunan province,…

China’s Tainted Meat Scandal Explained
July 30, 2014
McDonald's restaurants in many Chinese cities have been eerily quiet this past week. Many McDonald's addicts have been forced to go cold turkey as numerous branches have yanked flagship burgers off the menu amid a tainted meat…

Why Walmart and Costco Shrimp Prices Are So Low
Some of the most popular American corporations are importing shrimp at super-cheap prices from Thailand, where migrant workers are in slavery, like in Nazi Germany, being tortured while they work for no pay 20 hours a day. How much shrimp is…

House Votes to Repeal Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) for Meat
The House of Representatives has voted to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork, and chicken.
Texas Republican Rep. Michael Conaway’s Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015 passed late Wednesday night by a 300-131 vote.
Conaway…

The Biggest Chicken Seller in the U.S. Is Eliminating Antibiotics
Tyson Foods will no longer use human antibiotics in chickens. The Arkansas-based company, the nation's largest seller of chicken, is announcing today that it plans to eliminate the use of medically important antibiotics in its flocks by September…

WTO Rules Against Country-of-Origin Labeling on Meat in USA
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled in favor of Canada and Mexico in an ongoing dispute with the United States over country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat.
The latest U.S. labeling rules, put into effect in 2013, require…