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Industry takes steps to ensure beef is safe from E. coli
The industry is taking appropriate steps to help ensure that U.S. beef is safe from E. coli contamination, according to a recent audit by the USDA Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
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USDA launches web-based label approval system
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has launched a new web-based label approval system aimed at streamlining the agency’s review process.
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Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement now in effect
The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement took effect August 15, 2011. This agreement will result in fewer barriers to trade and expanded opportunities for Canadian exporters and investors in a broad range of sectors, including agriculture, mining and financial services.
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AMI Foundation reaffirms meat's role in healthy, balanced diet
Disputes Harvard study implicating meat consumption with increased risk for type 2 diabetes
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Beef industry leaders urge USDA to finalize comprehensive BSE rule
NCBA joined forces with USMEF, AMI and NMA to send a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging the USDA to finalize a comprehensive bovine spongiform encephalopathy rule.
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New federal data: E.coli O157:H7 found in less than 1/4 of 1% of samples
New federal data show that E. coli O157:H7 is found in less than one quarter of one percent of ground beef samples, a 72 percent decline since 2000 in ground beef samples testing positive for the pathogen.
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Campaign launched to combat top meat myths
The American Meat Institute, in conjunction with the American Meat Science Association, today launched its “Meat MythCrushers” campaign in an effort to reconnect Americans to modern food production
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Corn ethanol: Burning up food budgets
"While Nebraskans are closely watching gas prices escalate at the pump, they are also starting to see something else eating away at their budgets: rising food costs,” says AMI President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle in a guest editorial published Wednesday in the Lincoln Journal Star.
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AMI calls meat inspectors essential, should not be affected if government closes
The American Meat Institute (AMI) today urged the Obama administration to classify meat and poultry inspectors as essential personnel who are not subject to work stoppage if the government shuts down due to the ongoing budget impasses.
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Quick passage of Korea FTA stressed in Lincoln Journal Star editorial
While Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack gave a needed push to the proposed U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) earlier this month, more should be done to ensure this opportunity doesn’t slip by, according to an editorial published today in the Lincoln Journal Star.
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AMI supports repeal act proposed to end ethanol subsidies
AMI joined a broad and diverse coalition of more than 30 groups in support of a repeal act written to end ethanol tax credits.
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- Commentary: New rules un-COOL
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- NASA backs 3D food printer to feed growing population
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
