WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the wake of several high-profile food recalls, the White House on Monday proposed two new user fees that would provide $96 million to help pay for additional meat inspections ...

Is it better to have meat inspections conducted by a state agency or a federal agency? What do you think? Some New Mexicans who understand the economics of cattle growing and meat processing want to ...

Oregon’s State Inspection Program meets the same regulatory safeguards that USDA requires. Before the Oregon State Inspection Program was officially sanctioned by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection ...

NPR's John McChesney visits a meat grinding factory in Southern California to see just how bacteria free the meat packing process really is. Nine years ago, an E. coli outbreak in hamburger from that ...

The commercial slaughter of equine animals for human consumption ended in the United States 16 years ago. But the subject of horse slaughter still makes the annual legislative agenda in the nation’s ...

Most everyone agrees that it would be good for the livestock industry if the government allowed state-inspected meat plants to sell meat anywhere in the United States. Long-standing regulations ...

WASHINGTON — Under pressure from the meat industry and several states, Congress may be on the verge of eliminating a 40-year-old requirement that meat and poultry sold across state lines be federally ...

March 31 (Reuters) - The Canadian government, under pressure to eliminate its budget deficit, has reduced the frequency of inspections at certain Alberta meat-packing plants and plans to cut spending ...

It has taken several years to get the Arkansas Meat Inspection Program up and running, but efforts to expand livestock producers' access to state meat inspection services have accelerated in the last ...