http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org daily 1 2008-04-01T04:03:00Z http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/hallmark-westland-beef-recall Food & Water Watch writes a letter to USDA to urging them to seek an emergency regulation that would list all of the retail consignees involved in the 143 million pound recall of beef products from the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company of Chino, California (FSIS Recall Number 005-2008). No publisher Webeditor 2008-02-21T17:14:28Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/letter-to-secretary-of-agriculture-ed-schafer Food & Water Watch writes a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer regarding recently documented practices at the Westland/Hallmark slaughter facility in California. On January 30, 2008 the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released a video recorded at the plant that revealed the inhumane treatment of cattle. It also indicated the potential for downer cows, which present an increased risk of mad cow disease, to enter the food supply. No publisher bschumin 2008-02-26T17:18:43Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/food-technologies/carbon-monoxide/house-hearing Testimony of Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Energy and Commerce No publisher Webeditor 2007-11-13T20:36:34Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/usda-meat-inspectors-vacancies Food & Water Watch writes a letter to USDA requesting the number of Federal meat inspector vacancies under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA Case No.: 07-216 Number of Vacancies). No publisher Webeditor food meat inspection meat USDA food safety 2008-04-21T15:56:03Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/usda-ecoli-in-meat Food & Water Watch writes a letter to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on E. coli, October 17, 2007. No publisher Webeditor 2007-10-18T17:49:09Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodirradiation/fda-food-irradiation-labeling Re: Docket No. 2005N-0272 – Irradiation in the Production, Processing and Handling of Food (72 Fed. Reg. 16291-306, April 4, 2007) No publisher Webeditor 2007-07-03T15:26:01Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/madcowdisease/usda-bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy Letter from Food & Water Watch to the USDA regarding Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) – mad cow disease. No publisher Webeditor 2007-06-19T14:21:29Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/usda-melamine-no-recall Food & Water Watch sent the following letter to USDA to ascertain why the Food Safety and Inspection Service failed to initiate recalls of pork and poultry products that were produced from animals that ate feed adulterated with melamine. (See pdf version for appendices referenced.) No publisher press 2007-06-08T19:13:38Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/usda-vacancies-mean-meat-supply-not-inspected Food & Water Watch sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Richard Raymond outlining our concerns about agency’s lack of transparency on meat inspector vacancies. No publisher press 2007-04-18T17:10:58Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/rbi_background Meat and poultry are the only consumer products in the United States that get stamped with a government seal of approval. Laws such as the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act created a standard of “continuous” government inspection in meat and poultry plants. This standard means that USDA meat inspectors look at every carcass and every bird, and are on-site for at least part of every day in plants that are processing meat and poultry products after the slaughter stage. This level of government oversight of a product is unique – and none too popular with the meat industry, which has been working for decades to reduce the amount of government meat inspection. No publisher Webeditor food food safety 2007-05-23T16:10:46Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/contaminated-meat-usda-letter Food & Water Watch sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture objecting to a decision by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to allow the Swift plant in Grand Island, Nebraska to sell beef that clearly should have been rejected for human consumption. No publisher press 2007-03-27T19:08:44Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/rbiletter Food & Water Watch comments to the USDA opposing all of the Agency’s risk-based inspection proposals to date. No publisher ahill 2007-01-08T16:07:28Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodirradiation/u-s-food-irradiation/irradiated-fruit-imports Irradiated pineapples, mangoes and other tropical fruit from Thailand should not be imported into the United States because of dangers posed by invasive pests and increased competition that domestic farmers will face, Food & Water Watch told the US Department of Agriculture. No publisher press 2007-05-23T16:10:52Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/factoryfarms/avianflu/usda-should-revise-avian-flu-plan-coalition-statement A broad coalition of stakeholder groups issued a statement criticizing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan for responding to a U.S. outbreak of bird flu and calling for revisions to protect the public and poultry farmers. The coalition charged that the USDA does not acknowledge the risk posed by common poultry industry practices in the emergence and spread of highly-pathogenic avian influenza. No publisher press 2007-01-08T16:12:19Z Government Item http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/viruses-applied-to-food-fda-criticized Food & Water Watch comments to the Food and Drug Administration’s Final Rule on Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption; Bacteriophage Preparation. No publisher chriso FDA food food safety 2007-03-27T19:20:59Z Government Item