Month: November 2016

White House has exceeded its 90-day limit on review of USDA’s new meat and poultry labels, a rule aimed at bringing the department’s standards in line with the Nutrition Facts panel, which FDA updated this spring. Because USDA regulates most meat and poultry products, an update was needed to make sure labels reflect the most recent nutrition science and dietary recommendations. …

The head of Canada’s Agriculture Union says meat inspectors in Northern Alberta have resumed daily inspections in domestic plants nearly two years after staffing shortages forced the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cut back — a reduction in oversight government officials fervently and repeatedly insisted never happened. …

The beef checkoff’s Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative was a sponsor of the first-of-its-kind “League of Women in Meat” conference held in Petersham, Massachusetts, at Harvard Forest and Stillman Quality Meats in Hardwick. Approximately 35 women attended the 2-day event, Oct. 16-18, in order to broaden their knowledge of processing beef and pork. Attendees were all from the Northeast region, and their backgrounds ranged from small-scale meat processors and butchers to large online retail meat buyers. …