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Meat Industry
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Food Safety News
Another reason to “Ban the Batistas” by the advocacy group of the same name
By News Desk
Ban the Batistas is calling for a federal investigation into JBS to determine whether the world’s largest meatpacking company knowingly sourced its meat from cattle farms in Brazil. JBS USA…
Food Safety News
Oldest U.S. meat association forms an agreement with similar groups in Canada and Mexico
By News Desk
The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) in the United States, to deepen " meat industry coordination and government collaboration," has a new agreement with organizations in Canada and Mexico. NAMI…
The Daily Intake
Congressional Hearing Seeks Ways to Promote Competition in Meat Industry
On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, the House Judiciary Subcommittee held a hearing titled: “Where’s the Beef? Regulatory Barriers to Entry and Competition in Meat Processing” to examine how various aspects…
Food Safety News
JBS to appeal Brazilian Carne Fraca fine
JBS is to appeal a decision by Brazilian authorities to fine one of its subsidiaries as part of Operation Carne Fraca. The Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) verdict relating to Seara…
Food Safety News
Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known
By Dan Flynn
If Homeland Security is investigating the meat industry for human trafficking as was reported, it could be a long time before anything specific about that is known. But the Labor…
Schroeder Ag Law Blog
New Plan for Meat and Poultry Supply Chain
On January 3, 2022, President Biden announced his plan to create a fairer, more competitive, and more resilient meat and poultry supply chain. How will this plan impact integrators and…
Drug & Device Law
Testing, One, Two, Three….
By Bexis
The Ninth Circuit recently answered a preemption question that we had seen arise intermittently, mostly in food litigation, over the past couple of years. Because the relevant preemption clause closely…
Food Safety News
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much — and is a Vegan
Opinion On May 26, Food Safety News published an article written by law student Brianna Leach titled "The meat industry’s grip on government—time for an overhaul?" If this essay by…
Food Safety News
The meat industry’s grip on government — time for an overhaul?
Opinion Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of…
Food Safety News
Latest FSIS Enforcement Report comes just before production falls off the cliff
By Dan Flynn
When USDA's second quarter of the fiscal year ended on March 31, livestock slaughter was off only 2.2 percent from the first quarter and poultry production was actually up some.…