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News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

Statement of Dr. Richard Raymond Regarding Increased Testing and Re-inspection of Imported Meat and Poultry Products from Canada (FSIS/USDA/ 11/08)

UGA helping efforts to move poultry litter better (Georgia Faces/University of Georgia/ 11/01)

FSIS Final Rule Allows Chile to Export Poultry and Poultry Products to the U.S. (FSIS/USDA/ 10/30)

FSIS Provides Update on Topps Meat Company Recall Investigation (FSIS/USDA/ 10/26)

Meat ban lifted in UK (Food Production Daily/ 10/04)

E. COLI O157, GROUND BEEF - USA (MULTISTATE) (03): CDC REPORT (ProMED Mail/10/03)

Meat recalls point to possibility threat is growing (USA Today/ 10/01)

Maryland Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due to Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination (USDA/FSIS/ 9/29)

Intensive meat production a danger to food supply, warns FAO (Food Production Daily/ 9/17)

New York Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination (FSIS/USDA/ 9/05)

FSIS Issues Public Health Alert For Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination (FSIS/USDA/ 8/30)

Guide details the science of keeping meat safe (Food Production Daily/ 8/30)

An outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 phage type 2 infection in Paisley, Scotland (Eurosurveillance/ 8/23)

Trichinellosis outbreak in Bavaria caused by cured sausage from Romania, January 2007 (Eurosurveillance/ 8/23)

EU allows Britain to resume nearly all meat exports (Reuters Health/ 8/23)

Microbiological analysis advice for meat, eggs (Food Production Daily/ 8/22)

Outbreak of trichinellosis in north-western Poland, June 2007 (Eurosurveillance/ 7/12)

New 'superbug' strain spreading in meat, warns study (Food Production Daily/ 6/25)

Bug 'Found In Organic Chicken' (The Poultry Site/ 6/11)

Mad Cow: News, Information and Resources (UC Davis/ 5/30)

Russian Competition Office Restricts Meat Imports From Europe (The Poultry Site/ 5/30)

UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE, PORCINE - CHINA (06) (ProMED Mail/ 5/29)

National Microbiological Advisory Committee to Hold Public Meetings (American Meat Institute/ 5/29)

Nationwide Young Chicken Baseline Data Collection Program to Begin (American Meat Institute/ 5/29)

Memorial Day Weekend edition; grilling food safety (International Food Safety Network/KSU/ 5/25)

System improving life, profits in chicken houses (Georgia Faces/UGA/ 5/24)

Albertson’s LLC Introduces PakSense Temperature Monitoring Labels On Produce, Fresh Meat and Seafood Shipments (Meat and Poultry Online/ 5/24)

Research set on Campy in poultry (MeatNews.com/ 5/22)

Probiotics Help Produce Safer, Healthier Chickens, Researchers Discover (The Poultry Site/ 5/21)

USDA Releases Poultry for Processing (USDA/FSIS/ 5/18)

EFSA BSE report ‘too cautious’(MeatNews.com/ 5/16)

USDA Clears Swine for Processing (USDA/FSIS/ 5/15)

APHIS Proposes Voluntary Trichinae Certification Program (American Meat Institute/ 5/15)

Michigan Firm Recalls Beef Products Due To Possible Contamination With E.coli O157:H7 (USDA/FSIS/ pdf/ 5/11)

New Test May Allow for Rapid Detection of Salmonella in Meat (American Society for Microbiology/Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2007)

E. coli O157:H7 In Minnesota Cases linked to ground beef (International Food Safety Network/ KSU/ 5/09)

USDA clears 20 mln chickens that ate pet food (Reuters Health/ 5/07)

Scientists Conclude Very Low Risk to Humans from Food Containing Melamine (USDA/FSIS/ 5/07)

Animal identification system will work (MeatNews.com/ 5/07)

USDA NAMES MEMBERS TO NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION (USDA/FSIS/ 5/04)

Menu Foods Expands Its Pet Food Recalls, FDA Reports 2.7 Million Chickens Fed Contaminated Feed Already in Food System (American Veterinary Medical Association/ 5/03)

Canada Confirms New Mad Cow Case (US News and World Report/ 5/02)

EFSA seeks cloned animal studies (Food Production Daily/ 5/02)

Hundreds of Scientists Endorse U.S. FDA Risk Assessment on Livestock Cloning (Federation of Animal Science Societies/ 5/02)

Chickens Now Contaminated by Melamine (US News and World Report/ 5/01)

California Firm Recalls Ready-To-Eat Turkey Products for Possible Listeria Contamination (USDA/FSIS/ 5/01)

No melamine in feed ingredients: Smithfield (MeatNews.com/ 4/27)

FSIS revises Custom Exempt Review process (MeatNews.com/ 4/27)

Australia to run traceability exercise (MeatNews.com/ 4/27)

E. COLI O157, GROUND BEEF - USA (MULTISTATE) (02) (ProMED Mail/ 4/26)

E. COLI O157, STEAK - USA (PENNSYLVANIA): RECALL (ProMED Mail/ 4/26)

How Done Is That Burger? (UC Davis/ 4/24)

Study shows food preparation may play a bigger role in chronic disease than was previously thought (EurekAlert!/ 4/24)

NZFSA's Campylobacter Strategy Progresses Well (The Poultry Site/ 4/24)

China Sets Its Lawyers On Animal Disease (The Poultry Site/ 4/24)

Company blames suppliers for E. coli (MeatNews.com/ 4/24)

UK smoked meat recall (MeatNews.com/ 4/23)

TRICHINELLOSIS - RUSSIA (KRASNOYARSK) (ProMED Mail/ 4/22)

E. coli fears spur California and Pennsylvania beef recalls (CNN Money/ 4/21)

California Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products for Possible E. coli O157:H7 (USDA/FSIS/ pdf/ 4/20)

Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Beef Products for Possible E.coli O157:H7 (USDA/FSIS/ pdf/ 4/20)

Small-Enterprise Chicken Study 2007 (The Poultry Site/ 4/19)

Meat Scientist Wins Top National Award (Meat and Poultry Online/ 4/18)

Argentine cow clones to produce insulin in milk (Reuters Health/ 4/18)

Irish meat imports into UK breach BSE regulations, says report (Food Production Daily/ 4/18)

Monthly report of specified risk material and other BSE control breaches for February 2007 (Food Standards Agency/ 4/17)

Caterers Required to Display Origin of Beef – New Leaflet Detailing New Beef Labelling Requirements Available (FSAI/ 4/17)

Rattlesnake meat capsule can cause salmonella (Reuters Health/ 4/16)

Eating Cured Meats Frequently Can Lead To Lower Lung Function and Potential COPD (Newswise/ 4/16)

Help to implement BSE feed ban (MeatNews.com/ 4/16)

Minnesota Firm Recalls Sausage Products That May Contain Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxin (USDA/FSIS/ 4/16)

Ireland's egg industry declared Salmonella free (Food Production Daily/ 4/12)

Pathogen study develops processing parameters (Food Production Daily/ 4/11)

Cattle ID regulations changed (MeatNews.com/ 4/10)

Russia blocks meat imports (MeatNews.com/ 4/10)

Meat hygiene code under discussion (MeatNews.com/ 4/10)

UK Salmonella control measures ‘OK’ (MeatNews.com/ 4/09)

North Korea should remain on FMD alert (MeatNews.com/ 4/05)

Legislation to help processors (MeatNews.com/ 4/05)

Easter food safety risks (Food Safety Network/KSU/ pdf/ 4/04)

Good news for eggs (safefood/Ireland/ 4/04)

Salmonella infects one in four chickens for meat (Food Production Daily/ 4/04)

Move to cut Salmonella in chicken (MeatNews.com/4/04)

Official controls in meat premises reviewed (MeatNews.com / 4/03)

EFSA survey supports UK salmonella control measures (Food Standards Agency/ 4/03)

Meat inspection consultation launched (Food Production Daily/ 4/02)

Eggs can be safe and colorful (UGA/Georgia FACES/ 3/29)

AMI Calls Beef and Sperm Count Paper a Health Study in Search of a Health Problem (American Meat Institute/ 3/29)

R-CALF against OTM rule (MeatNews.com/ 3/28)

China pressured to accept U.S. beef (MeatNews.com/ 3/28)

Concerns over hormones in beef (MeatNews.com/ 3/28)

Cargill introduces tracking system (MeatNews.com/ 3/27)

Link between beef consumption during pregnancy and reduced sperm quality in sons (EurekAlert!/ 3/27)

Safe Foods gets Canadian clearance (MeatNews.com/ 3/27)

Health hazard alert (MeatNews.com/ 3/20)

Cattle sausage casings still a risk (MeatNews.com/ 3/20)

Protein Found in Chickens May Help Protect Against Food-Borne Pathogens (Journals of the American Society for Microbiology / 3/19)

Mexican broiler imports to increase (Meat News.com/ 3/19)

FOODBORNE ILLNESS, FATAL, BOAR - NEPAL: TRICHINELLOSIS SUSPECTED (ProMED Mail/ 3/19)

Salmonella control in turkey chillers (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

Beef import ban threatened (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

Smithfield workers to testify on safety (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

Outbreak of trichinellosis in Spain and Sweden due to consumption of wild boar meat contaminated with Trichinella britovi (Eurosurveillance/ 3/15)

Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infection traced to imported cured sausage using MLVA-subtyping (Eurosurveillance/ 3/15)

Salmonella control in turkey chillers (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

Beef import ban threatened (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

Outbreak of trichinellosis in Spain and Sweden due to consumption of wild boar meat contaminated with Trichinella britovi (Eurosurveillance/ 3/15)

Smithfield workers to testify on safety (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

Poultry industry increases need for feed (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infection traced to imported cured sausage using MLVA-subtyping (Eurosurveillance/ 3/15)

Kenya: Meat Eaters Tuck in As 32-Day Ban On Livestock Trade Lifted (allAfrica.com/ 3/14)

China resumes frozen chicken exports (MeatNews.com/ 3/13)

FMD controls agreed (MeatNews.com/ 3/13)

Canada’s BSE risk assessed (MeatNews.com/ 3/13)

Investigation into case of H-type BSE (MeatNews.com/ 3/13)

ANTHRAX, PORCINE - RUSSIA (ORENBURG) (ProMED Mail/ 3/12)

What They're Saying About Risk-Based Inspection in Processing Plants (USDA/FSIS / 3/09)

OIE says US a mad cow 'controlled risk' country (Reuters Health/ 3/09)

Health hazard alert (MeatNews.com /3/09)

FMD vaccination for Turkey (MeatNews.com /3/09)

Poultry processed at bird flu plant (MeatNews.com /3/09)

Cloning safety to be investigated (MeatNews.com /3/09)

WORC wants COOL of beef (MeatNews / 3/09)

Poultry plants testing food-safety technology (MeatNews / 3/08)

Surprising antibiotic-resistant bacteria study results (MeatNews / 3/08)

Poultry plants testing food-safety technology (MeatNews / 3/08)

USDA should withdraw OTM rule: R-CALF (MeatNews / 3/08)

EU agency asked to rule on cloned meat and milk (Reuters Health / 3/08)

EU to look at cloned meat safety (BBC News/ 3/08)

Some question chicken safety (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / 3/08)

Chicken feed may present arsenic danger (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / 3/08)

Tyson recalls ground beef on E. coli fears (MeatNews/ 3/06)

Kraft Foods Takes Precautionary Measure And Removes All (Meat and Poultry Online/ 3/05)

Tyson unit recalls ground beef on E.Coli risk: USDA (Reuters Health/ 3/05)

Proposed Rule to Restore Beef Trade with Canada Is Based on Sound Science, Says AMIF (American Meat Institute / 2/21)

AMI Experts Calls Low Ox MAP CO Packaging Controversy ‘A Study in Food Politics That Warrants Peer Review’ (American Meat Intitute/ 2/19)

Changes coming to meat, poultry inspections (CNN/ 2/19)

FSAI Consultation on National Rules for Poultry Meat (Ireland/FSAI/ 2/19)

Japanese Ads Featuring American Women Endorse U.S. Beef (U.S. Meat Export Federation/ 2/07)

Economic Analysis Shows The Use Of Antibiotics In Chicken Feed Increases The Cost Of Poultry Production (Meat and Poultry News/ 1/18)

Poultry consumption, handling are risk factors for antibiotic resistance in humans (Eurek Alert / 10/10)

Hide-Washing Improves Beef Safety (USDA-ARS / 10/4)

FDA Says Viruses Safe for Treating Meat (USNews.com / 8/18)

Reducing salmonella in European egg-laying hens: EU targets now set (Eurosurveillance Weekly / 8/10)

UNITED STATES: An emerging assay method may enable poultry processors to find and destroy antibiotic resistant bacteria from poultry meat. (MeatNews.com / 8/10)

Drug-resistant E. coli likely started in poultry (Reuters Health / 7/10)

EU citizens eating less poultry, avian flu survey finds (FoodProductionDaily.com / 7/10)

NORWAY: Slaughtering stops as meat inspectors walk out of plants over wages. (MeatNews.com / 6/7)

Production Practices Effect Antimicrobial Resistance in Poultry (American Society for Microbiology / 5/15)

Turkey Trips Don’t Aggravate Contamination (NewsWise.com / 5/5)

Tesco says UK bird flu scare hit poultry sales (Reuters Health / 4/26)

China Added to List of Countries Eligible to Export Processed Poultry to the U.S. (FSIS / 4/20)

Chicken With Arsenic? Is That O.K.? (New York Times / 4/5)

Single Minimum Internal Temperature Established For Cooked Poultry (FSIS / 4/5)

US Egg producers prohibited from selling eggs (Food Science World / 2/27)

Progress Made in Reducing Campylobacter in Poultry (USDA-ARS / 2/17)

Advances in Post-Harvest Reduction of Salmonella in Poultry (USDA / 2/7)

THAILAND: New government regulations focus on improving the quality of processed poultry. (MeatNews.com / 1/25)

Food Safety Authority States Nicarbazin Residues in Poultry are of Low Safety Concern (Food Safety Authority of Ireland / 1/23)

UNITED STATES: Researchers report that microbial supplements reduce E. coli load in the feces of beef cattle up to 35 percent. (MeatNews.com / 1/9)

UNITED STATES: FSIS reports previous numbers on E. coli O157:H7 declines in raw ground beef are accurate. (MeatNews.com / 12/16)

Statement On Japan’s Food Safety Commission Finding That U.S. Beef Is Safe, From USMEF President And CEO Philip M. Seng (U.S. Meat Export Federation / 12/8)

Australia tightens poultry safety standards (FoodProductionDaily.com / 12/7)

Illumina Conducting Large-Scale Poultry Genotyping Project For Aviagen (Meat and Poultry Online News / 11/16)

Natural Substance Reduces Campylobacter in Chickens (USDA ARS / 11/16)

FSIS To Host Public Meeting on Advances in Pre-Harvest Reduction of Salmonella in Poultry (USDA / 8/3)

Citing Human Threat, U.S. Bans a Poultry Drug (New York Times / 7/29)

Computer Vision Systems Detects Foreign Objects in Processed Poultry (NewsWise.com / 7/21)

UK regulator targets Campylobacter in poultry (FoodProductionDaily.com / 7/20)

Augmented Reality Technology May Bridge Communication Gap in Poultry Processing Plants (Georgia Tech University / 7/14)

Paper Says Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale (University of Maryland / 7/6)