No Movement on Agriculture Appropriations Bills as Congress Goes on Five-Week Summer Break By Lydia Zuraw  Congress broke for the August recess on Friday and won't be back in the Capitol until Sept. 8. One of the many pieces of legislative business left at a standstill is the Fiscal Year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which funds the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. The House of Representatives began... Continue ReadingRecent Lapses in Global Food Safety Worry North American Consumers By Ryan Weaver  Stomachs in China have been turning after a recent food scandal at the processing plant of a major supplier of Chinese fast-food restaurants. A Chinese investigative television program exposed the conditions at a U.S.-owned meat processor that supplies major brands such as McDonald's and KFC. The exposé showed workers at the processing plant picking up... Continue ReadingFDA Warning Letters: Five Seafood Processors, Three Dairies, One Egg Producer, One Canned Food Processor By News Desk  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s latest batch of warning letters for food manufacturers were sent to an egg producer, dairy operations, a foreign canned food producer and both foreign and domestic seafood processors. Two dairies, Hoke Farms in Pennsylvania and Double D Dairy in Michigan, received warnings for using animal drugs in ways not directed according to the... Continue ReadingMore Food Safety News | 
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