Researchers and experts in animal health and human health shared scientific and thought-provoking information that elicited much lively discussion from participants of the “Antibiotic Use in Food Animals: A Dialogue for a Common Purpose” symposium...More
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant to Iowa State University to develop a program to train inspectors for the new Food Safety Modernization Act...More
President Barrack Obama signed into law the recently passed Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Reform bill. This new law provides the most substantive changes to food safety laws since the 1930s....More
By a wide margin of 215 to 144, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Food Safety Modernization Act and sent it to President Obama for approval...More
Key facts discount comments made on antibiotics segments aired last monthin the CBS Evening News two-part report on antibiotics last month that Scott Hurd, DVM, associate professor at Iowa State University, decided to respond directly to the false claims...More
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), chairwoman of the House Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee, has called for an independent science board to review USDA’s meat and poultry inspection system in reaction to the recent recall...More
A study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) again confirms that meat and tissue from pigs exposed to two strains of the 2009 novel H1N1 flu virus are free of the virus...More
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) passed unanimously S. 510, “The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act,” introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Judd Gregg (R-NH)....More
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) says the food safety legislation approved by the House of Representatives late last week is much improved over the version released earlier by the House Energy and Commerce Committee....More
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) is voicing strong opposition to two pieces of legislation that would remove and restrict antibiotics for veterinary and farm use....More
Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) and Swine Welfare Assurance Program (SWAP) are being rolled into one program that will include an assessment, certification...More
A delegation from the United States, including representatives from the pork industry and the U.S. Meat Export Federation, met recently with the Japanese...More
Genotype Affects Response to Stress Though relatively equal in muscle growth ability, different genotypes can respond differently to early postmortem...More
