Meat & Poultry

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice held the second of five joint public workshops on competition and regulatory issues in the agriculture industry May 21. …

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the supermarket, another food manufacturer has decided to slap a misleading claim on its products. This time its Perdue, the countrys third largest chicken producer, which has started touting its a natural chicken products as humanely raised. …

Chicken growers in the U.S. want processors to increase payments and bear more of the cost associated with raising flocks, two industry groups said. …

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently appointed Nevada beef producer Annalyn Settlemeyer to a three-year term on the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion & Research Board, which oversees administration of the national Beef Checkoff Program. …

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of illness due to E. coli O157 significantly decreased in 2009. The 2009 E. coli illness rate is the lowest since 2004 and meets the Healthy People 2010 goal to cut the number of O157 illnesses in half. …