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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).

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.

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.

AMI Foundation reaffirms meat's role in healthy, balanced diet

Disputes Harvard study implicating meat consumption with increased risk for type 2 diabetes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.