The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has come up with new guidelines aimed at modernizing the way inspections at hog plants are carried out. The new rules proposed by the department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are ...
Tags: hog plants, Meat
Canada has lifted a 19-year ban on import of beef from the European Union, which was imposed due to mad cow disease epidemic. The European Commission along with the 19 member states are working on to resume the exports of beef to the ...
Tags: European Beef, Import Ban
Philippines Government officials have seized 150kg of frozen meat products worth P20,000 ($444) from Quezon City. GMA News reported citing radio dzBB's James Agustin that the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) captured the meat from ...
Tags: frozen meat, Agriculture
Scottish government is set to launch a new food safety regulator, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), which will takeover the operations carried out by UK organization, the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The announcement comes as Food (Scotland) ...
Tags: food safety, Food, Agriculture, Drink
The Food Standards Agency is seeking a contractor to carry out research to explore a model where plant staff acting as spotters identify and flag up defects on carcases and offal. This will happen before the official meat inspection is ...
Tags: meat inspection, Food
The Scottish government is to create a food standards watchdog for the country. The new body will oversee issues including food safety, nutrition and labelling in Scotland. It follows changes to the remit of the UK's Food Standards ...
Tags: food standards, food safety, food nutrition, food labelling
The Scottish government has announced its plans to create a stand-alone food standards agency for the region,which will cover food safety,standards,nutrition,labelling and meat inspection. This decision comes two years after the ...
Tags: food standards agency, food safety, FSA