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Food Safety and Worker Safety Can Improve in Poultry Facilities

March 26, 2014 Al Almanza, Administrator, USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service

While rates of Salmonella illnesses remain stubbornly high in this country, the United States is continuing to rely on a 60-year-old poultry inspection system developed under the Eisenhower Administration. Our knowledge of foodborne illness and poultry processing has improved significantly since...

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Meeting our Mission – A Safer Food Supply

May 02, 2013 Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety

Cross posted from Food Safety News: My passion for public health stems from my career as an infectious disease doctor, watching families cope with the heartbreak caused by preventable diseases, including foodborne illness. I know what it feels like to explain to a husband in shock that the reason...

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