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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The first major changes to food inspection in a decade will increase federal scrutiny of meat and poultry plants where the danger from E. coli and other germs is high or where past visits ...

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 ...

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 ...