11/20/2009 09:33AM
Weigh the newspaper and magazine coverage and you might think the meat industry has little concern about food safety issues.
11/19/2009 07:20AM
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today passed S. 510, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act, by a voice vote.
11/18/2009 07:06AM
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service yesterday released its annual report “Household Food Security in the United States,” which found that 13 million more American households had trouble putting food on the table in 2008 than they did in 2007.
11/09/2009 01:35PM
The meat industry has made great strides over the past decade in reducing E. coli-related illnesses, says AMI President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle, who appeared on “Good Morning America” today.
10/30/2009 09:25AM
The National Hot Dog & Sausage Council today applauded Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez for his donation of 1,000 hot dogs and hamburgers, along with buns and rolls, to the Community Soup Kitchen in Morristown, N.J. but expressed regret that he had to apologize for acting on an all-American impulse: eating a hot dog at a ball game.
10/29/2009 01:41PM
AMI today elected the six officers that will guide the organization through the next year. The election was held at AMI’s Annual Business Meeting during the Worldwide Food Expo, Oct. 28-31, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.
10/22/2009 01:07PM
The U.S. government should establish an age-verification Quality System Assessment (QSA) Program for Taiwan to ensure an orderly expansion to a full market opening to U.S. beef products, according to a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that was signed by AMI, the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) and the National Meat Association (NMA).
10/21/2009 01:17PM
The Senate yesterday approved the $42.8 billion FY10 Homeland Security conference report, which includes a three-year extension of E-Verify and $137 million to operate the system and further improve its accuracy and compliance rates.
10/13/2009 01:42PM
“(The meat industry) has invested tens of millions of dollars over the last ten years in research programs to make our products safer.