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• Jun 6, 2013 USDA Proposal to Require New Labeling for Some Beef Products Is Partially Correct -- And Mostly Wrong Washington, D.C. – A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) proposal to require labeling changes on mechanically tenderized beef products is partially correct, but other provisions contained within it are mostly wrong, according to the American Meat...    more...
• Jun 4, 2013 CDC Vital Signs Report Highlights Progress in Reducing Listeria monocytogenes on Meat & Poultry Products Washington, D.C.--Today’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vital Signs report on Listeria offers the latest evidence of the significant progress that the meat and poultry industry has made in reducing the dangerous pathogen Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry...    more...
• May 29, 2013 American Meat Institute Welcomes World Organization for Animal Health Affirmation of U.S. BSE Controls    Category: Press Releases
  The American Meat Institute (AMI) today welcomed news that the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has recognized the U.S. as having negligible risk status for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)...    more...   
• May 23, 2013 American Meat Institute Foundation Details Major Progress in Enhancing Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry, Details Commitment to Sustaining Food Safety Progress and Partnering With Retail Customers Washington, DC, May 23, 2013 – Manufacturers of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products have dramatically improved the safety of their products during the last decade and plan to use what they have learned in battling this pathogen to make further process in the years to come, according to AMI...    more...
• May 23, 2013 Burdensome Country-of-Origin Labeling Rule Will Not Satisfy WTO or Trading Partners, But Will Harm U.S. Agriculture USDA’s ‘Rubber Stamp’ of Proposed Rule Despite Extensive Concerns From Impacted Companies and Key Trading Partners Is Incomprehensible, Reckless    more...
• May 22, 2013 Steak and Burgers Top Choices for Consumers this Grilling Season Washington, D.C. —Memorial Day weekend officially kicks off the summer grilling season and this year, steaks and burgers top the list of foods that Americans will grill first....    more...
• May 8, 2013 American Meat Institute Releases Video Tour of Pork Plant Hosted By Animal Welfare Expert Temple Grandin, Ph.D. The American Meat Institute (AMI) today released a video tour of a pork slaughter plant hosted by leading animal welfare expert Temple Grandin, Ph.D., professor of animal science at Colorado State University. The video is available on the Institute’s dedicated animal welfare Web site...    more...
• May 2, 2013 American Meat Institute Unveils New Facebook Page That Speaks Universal Language: ‘Meat’ New Page Debuts as a Central Location for Carnivores to Celebrate Meat   Washington, D.C. May 2, 2013— Meat.   It has been a part of our diets for millions of years. It inspires celebration from bacon festivals to Meat Week to meat art and now it has inspired a...    more...
• May 1, 2013 Livestock and Poultry Groups Provide Comments to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the Negative Impact of the RFS WASHINGTON D.C.——Seven livestock and poultry groups submitted comments to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the negative effects the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) has had on agriculture, including the high cost of feed facing livestock and poultry producers. The comments answer...    more...
• Apr 30, 2013 Consumer Reports Ground Turkey Testing Shows Remarkable Food Safety Profile for Nutritious Product Microbiological testing of ground turkey conducted by Consumer Reports yielded findings that show a high level of turkey safety. While the magazine chooses to focus today’s story on four bacteria their labs did find, the more important story is about the pathogenic bacteria of public health...    more...
• Apr 23, 2013 U.S. Meat and Poultry Products Are Safe; New Report's Focus on Meat and Poultry Only Lacks Total Diet Context U.S. meat and poultry companies produce 90 billion pounds of meat and poultry products a year and 99.99 percent of these are consumed safely.    more...
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