The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is continuing its sampling plan and has published updates for the 2025 fiscal year. The plan is designed to leverage technological and sampling advances ...

Sure, I would like to ban all Salmonella from chicken, but I learned long ago that you never make progress by making “perfect the enemy of the good.” Making the three Salmonellas that are know to ...

USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing changes it will make in its procedures for Listeria monocytogenes(Lm) product sampling programs in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.

USDA will crack down on animal-raising claims, such as ‘grass-fed’ and ‘free-range,’ and could require lab testing or launch a new verification sampling program for negative antibiotics claims, such ...

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Aug. 28 that it updated guidelines on how it supports documentation for animal-raising or environment-related claims on labels for ...