On February 3, 2015, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a notice to inspection program personnel (IPP) to make them aware of the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) final rule on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) published in the Federal Register on May 24, 2013, which requires certain [...]
On December 31, 2014, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a final rule requiring the use of descriptive designations as part of the product name on the labels of raw meat and poultry products that contain added solutions and do not meet a standard of identity. [...]
On September 2, 2014, the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a notice (Notice 43-14) to enforcement staff announcing that beginning on September 29, 2014, samples of raw ground beef products collected in consumer-ready packaging (with a label bearing a nutrition facts panel) for testing for Shiga toxin-producing E. [...]
On August 21, 2014, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a final rule amending the poultry products inspection regulations to establish a new inspection system for young chicken and all turkey slaughter establishments. Young chicken and turkey slaughter establishments that do not choose to operate under [...]
On August 13, 2014, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture published in the Federal Register a notice announcing that it will implement new traceback procedures when FSIS or another Federal or State agency finds raw ground beef or bench trim presumptive positive for Escherichia coli O157:H7. FSIS is [...]
On August 13, 2014, the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued FSIS Notice 39-14 clarifying what product is to be sampled as beef manufacturing trimmings (under MT60 sampling code), and what product is to be sampled as bench trim (MT55). The notice cancels Notice 81-13. The notice also explains that product [...]
