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FDA Tries To Get Ahead Of Food Recalls

By Maggie Fox April 16, 2009

Not a single person was diagnosed with food poisoning, but the U. S. Food and Drug Administration made the move anyway – on March 31 it announced a nationwide recall of pistachios after salmonella was found in one producer’s 2008 crop. Since then, recall announcements have come daily, for a total of 290 so far.

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Mandatory U. S. Animal ID On Its Way, Beef Sector Protests

By Christopher Doering April 16, 2009

The U. S. livestock industry could soon be facing a mandatory tracking system for animals, but the proposal is being vigorously opposed by beef producers. A voluntary animal-tracking system, known as traceback, has been in place since shortly after the country’s first case of mad cow disease in December 2003, but some members of Congress

Livestock

Grocer Calls For Heightened Food Inspections

By Christopher Doering April 9, 2009

The U. S. Agriculture Department should expand its risk-based inspection system to focus on products neglected by the Food and Drug Administration to help stop a rash of massive food recalls, an official from a U. S. grocery chain said on April 2. The U. S. food supply system is under fire after a series

Opinion

Wetlands vital to nutrient management

April 9, 2009

The Government of Manitoba’s March 25 throne speech includes a statement identifying more research being undertaken to reduce nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg. This comes at the right time as Ducks Unlimited Canada’s (DUC) new water quality research in the Broughton’s Creek watershed in southwest Manitoba shows the need to assist landowners as a critical

Hogs, News

Non-BRM Agreement May Help With Manure Storages

By Ron Friesen April 9, 2009

Manitoba hog producers required to expand their manure storage facilities could get some financial help from a federal-provincial agreement signed last week. The $117.5 million Growing Forward agreement between Manitoba and Ottawa includes $18.8 million for eligible beneficial management practices (BMPs) involving water and nutrient management. That should include manure storages, although the available money

News

U. S. Farm-Cut Fight Far From Over

By Charles Abbott April 9, 2009

The fight to cut U. S. farm subsidies is just beginning in Congress despite a committee vote against a $250,000-a-year cap on payments, a limit supported by the White House, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says. “Let’s see where things end up,” Vilsack said during an interview with Reuters March 27. He said deficit hawks in

Opinion, Poultry

Debating Feed Contamination And Foodborne Illness Links

By Rick Holley April 2, 2009

Whether animal feed contaminated by salmonella or E. coli 0157:H7 contributes to the overall burden of food-borne illness in humans is a contentious issue. In a letter March 26 to The Manitoba Co-operator, Graham Cooper, executive director of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada indicated that the Canadian feed industry has adopted measures to prevent

Livestock

Antibiotic Ban On Livestock May Hurt U. S. Food Safety

By Christopher Doering April 2, 2009

A bill that would ban the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in animals would hurt the health of livestock and poultry while compromising efforts to protect the safety of the country’s food supply, the leader of the largest U. S. farm group said March 24. Bob Stallman, president of the six-million-member American Farm Bureau Federation, said

News

Food Safety Study Snarled

By Alex Binkley April 2, 2009

A Commons subcommittee set up to examine last year’s listeria outbreak and the state of food safety in Canada choked on a large helping of politics during its first meeting March 25. The formation of the subcommittee was agreed to more than a month ago by the Commons agriculture committee fuelled by the opposition’s apprehension

Beef cattle, News, Poultry

K-State release

April 2, 2009

A comprehensive study conducted by agricultural economists at Kansas State University and Michigan State University revealed areas in which the beef industry can concentrate its efforts to strengthen beef demand, despite a sagging global and U. S. economy. The study showed that nutrition, safety and convenience remain important factors when it comes to shoppers’ attitudes

Daily Network News

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