Following its audit in May 2015 to determine whether China maintains standards that conform with three key U.S. poultry inspection laws, FSIS has decided that the poultry slaughter inspection system there meets its equivalence criteria. This conclusion has met with controversy.Prior to and through 2008, U.S. imports of Chinese adulterated pet foods and dairy products that included melamine led to the deaths of several pets and six infants as well as several reported incidents of illness. This pushed more scrutiny of Chinese products, processing and regulatory oversight. As part of the backlash, the U.S. Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) audited Chinese chicken processing facilities in 2010 and again in 2013, which resulted in a listed n...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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