The inspector, Jill Mauer, works inside Quality Pork Processors, a large Minnesota slaughterhouse that has served as a model for the USDA’s controversial move to reduce oversight of pig slaughter ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a grant of inspection to a horse slaughter establishment -- Valley Meats Company -- in Roswell, New Mexico. FSIS says it expects two ...

As a result of the outcry, USDA changed course; its final regulations, published in August, lack the anticipated increase in slaughter line speed and also make participation in the new poultry ...

It doesn’t help that those inspection systems were weirdly ... will go through three separate USDA inspections: At the slaughterhouse, at the pepperoni-making facility, and at the pizza factory.

The agency said additional consideration is needed in light of feedback received during the public comment period.

Farmer Pat McNiff has one less worry this spring now that the USDA has withdrawn a proposed rule that he said could have put ...

The department previously said salmonella bacteria causes more than one million illnesses in the US each year.

A new inspection report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that more than 3,000 chickens died while en ...