Not In My Food

In January of 2009, USDA published a final rule on COOL that covered Beef, Pork, Lamb, Chicken, Goat Meat, Wild and Farm-Raised Fish and Shellfish, Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Peanuts, Pecans, Ginseng, and Macadamia Nuts. Almost immediately, a number of countries challenged the COOL requirements for muscle cut meat commodities, saying that the US COOL regulations discriminated against the importing country’s product.

Categories: Food Safety, Imports, USDA
Tags: antibiotics, meat

There’s been a growing call for action in recent weeks to address the threat to public health posed by the routine use of antibiotics in healthy food animals.  It’s no wonder given years of inaction by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and mounting evidence that the overuse of antibiotics in meat production is getting worse. Continue Reading

Categories: Food Safety, Meat without Drugs
Tags: antibiotics, meat

Consumers can have a very high level of trust that any meat and poultry labeled “USDA Organic” has never been given any antibiotics at any stage of production.  Organic producers follow strict USDA guidelines in order to use the label on their products, which indicates that   many healthful and environmentally sound practices were employed in Continue Reading

Categories: Meat without Drugs
Tags: antibiotics, meat, meat labels, organic