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Activists are calling for the luxury food foie gras or 'fat liver' to be banned, due to the supposed force-feeding of geese and ducks to enlarge their livers for producing the delicacy. The feeding of the birds is done in a very humane way, and it is suggested that the poor conditions of animals at meat and poultry farms should be focused on rather than foie gras farms.

THE FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE (FSIS) issued a notice that re-issues and updates instructions to reflect organizational changes in the USDA'S AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (AMS) and FSIS as well [...]

After much ditheringn and in response to the avian flu pandemic, the European Commission on 29 March formally proposed to extend the scope of the two regulations (2771/75 and 2777/75), [...]

Meat Labeling: FSIS proposed to amend the standards, procedures and definitions for determining the reasonable variations allowed for the declared net weight on labels of immediate containers of meat and [...]

'HEALTHY' MEAT CLAIMS: USDA's Food Safety & inspection Service announced that its regulations will continue to provide that individual meat and poultry products bearing the claim 'healthy' (or any other [...]

POULTRY SLAUGHTER: FSIS reminds all poultry slaughter establishments that live poultry must be handled in a manner that is consistent with good commercial practices, which means they should be treated [...]

NEW REGIONS CONSIDERED FREE OF EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE: USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending the regulations, effective Feb. 11, by adding the Mexican States of Campeche, Quintana [...]

REMOVAL OF QUARANTINE AREAS RE: EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE: USDA is amending the exotic Newcastle disease regulations by removing Dona Ana, Luna, and Otero Counties, NM, Hudspeth County, TX, and portions [...]

NEW RULES FOR SQUABS AND RATITES: U.S. establishments slaughtering or processing squabs or ratites (ostriches, emus, and rheas) for human consumption will be now subject to the requirements of the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced April 18 it is set to improve nutrition labeling compliance for meat and poultry products and is seeking additional comments to [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) Dec. 1 proposed a change to its regulations that will allow the on-line reprocessing of pre-chilled [...]

FDA WITHDRAWS POULTRY ANTIBIOTIC: As previously reported, The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to withdraw approval of the new animal drug application fluoroquinolones because it causes the development of [...]

A bill to improve the welfare of broiler chickens in the UK was due to have its second reading in the House of Commons today (February 4). The bill, sponsored [...]

Canada's general standards board has released a standard document for organic agriculture that sets out the general principles for organic production and the procedures a producer must follow for crop [...]

For the past three years urban gardener and author (City Farmer. Adventures in Urban Food Growing) Lorraine Johnson has kept chickens in her Toronto west-end backyard. As Toronto considers ending [...]

The European Commission has announced plans to lift the European Union's ban on chemically treated poultrymeat imports. The Commission has guaranteed that the implementation of the new legislation will be reviewed after two years. Details of the new rule are presented.

The European Union (EU) Farm Council is opposing plans by the European Commission to relax the rules on importing poultrymeat treated with chlorine and other pathogen-reduction treatments. In 1997, the European Union banned the use of antimicrobial agents, mainly chlorine, in treating poultrymeat. This ban created a barrier to imports of poultrymeat from the United States.

The European Union's (EU) ministers are opposing efforts to relax the existing ban on the use of disinfecting chemicals to treat poultrymeat. European farmers' unions COPA and COGECA also advised the EU not to authorize the use of these chemicals 'to please the United States'. The debates concerning food security are also discussed.

European Union (EU) sources have said that the EU may lift its ten-year ban on imports of chlorine-treated chicken from the United States. Poultry producers in the United States treat their chicken with antimicrobial agents to get rid of salmonella. The European poultrymeat industry is against this practice.

Do you know where the egg came from that you ate for breakfast? The majority of eggs available for sale at grocery stores are so-called "battery eggs"--hatched on an assembly […]

A SURPRISING finding by a team of University of Georgia scientists suggests that curbing the use of antibiotics on poultry farms will do little--if anything--to reduce rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria [...]

Despite last week's extension of the ban (see AE2206, 5.5.06, N/2), poultry in many regions of Germany will be allowed outdoors again from May 15, thanks to a new regulation, [...]

The German federal regions (Lander) appear to have derailed farm minister Renate Kunast's plans to ban all cage rearing of layer hens by 2007, VWD news agency reports. Animal protection [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule last month that imposes new Clean Water Act restrictions on commercial poultry operations that exceed an animal number threshold defining concentrated animal feeding [...]

Muslim consumers could soon have to pay more for halal chicken as the result of new slaughter rules to be introduced by one of the UK's major halal certification bodies. [...]

OLYMPIA, WASH. -- A new bill in Washington state seeks to assemble a livestock care board to create and oversee minimum-care standards for livestock and poultry. House Bill 2674, introduced [...]

Poultry which has been stored at temperatures under 26 degrees fahreinheit should not be sold as fresh in the state of California, according to the Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In its ruling, the court also reversed a lower court ruling banning the enforcement of the entire fresh poultry law and reinstated certain provisions of the law. However, it upheld the lower court's decision barring California from putting into effect its own poultry labeling requirements.

UK chicken producers will be at a serious commercial disadvantage if Defra does not allow controversial new stocking density limits, industry representatives have warned. EU legislation, set to be brought [...]

European Union member state health experts have voted to lift a ban on the import of poultrymeat products from Shangdong, China. The province was considered to have neutralized the threat of avian flu. It was reported that a ban remains in place for poultrymeat products from other Chinese provinces until approval is requested.

It was reported that Russia's ban on Polish poultry imports has been lifted. The ban on Polish meat imports was gradually lifted at the end of December 2007, but the ban on poultry was kept. Meat imports were banned in November 2005 due to poor quality controls, and Poland blocked a European Union-Russian agreement that covers energy, trade, and human rights.

British poultry growers have panned new EU chicken welfare rules agreed last week by farm ministers. They say the directive from Brussels could lower welfare standards in the UK and [...]

As fears about avian flu increase, U.S. overseas sales of poultry are taking a hit. Now Russia, the largest customer for U.S. poultry producers, has slammed the door shut on [...]

UK poultrymeat producers are braced for a flood of cheap imports after world trade arbitrators said that lightly salted frozen chicken cuts should be allowed into the EU at a [...]