Category: Government

FDA report outlines food safety deficiencies at Diamond Pet Foods plant

Diamond Pet Foods, the company behind a massive recall of dry dog food due to Salmonella contamination that has sickened at least 16 people, was not taking “all reasonable precautions”

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Farm Bill Lacks Authority for First Line Disease Testing System

Although mad cow disease is in the headlines this week after the discovery of an affected cow in California, the farm bill passed on Thursday by the Senate Agriculture Committee failed to include an inexpensive and uncontroversial provision authorizing the lab system that tested the animal.

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Bob Gould

Seraphim12 Foundation Participates in Horses On the Hill Today

Washington, D.C. – April 25, 2012 – The Seraphim12 Foundation is participating in the “Horses on the Hill” event today in Washington, D.C.

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Missouri Senate approves rabies vaccination mandate

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators have approved legislation requiring pet owners to have their dogs and cats vaccinated against rabies. Read more…

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Court orders FDA to examine antibiotics use on animals

…The prevalence of those antibiotics in livestock has been linked in several studies to the creation of drug-resistant “superbugs” that can spread to humans who work with or eat the animals…

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BLM says some wild-horse roundup techniques are inappropriate

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada found some mustangs were whipped in the face, kicked in the head, dragged by a rope around the neck, and repeatedly shocked with electrical prods, but the agency concluded none of the mistreatment rose to the level of being inhumane.

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USDA defends seeking HSUS input on welfare agenda

Agri-Pulse obtained a copy of an internal USDA memo that recommends HSUS and other welfare advocacy groups be allowed to set the agenda for a proposed animal welfare scientific forum. 

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Texas Vet looks at proposed traceability rule

This August, USDA’s Animal and Plant health Inspection Service (APHIS) proposed a new set of rules for animal traceability under which livestock moving interstate would have to be officially identified unless specifically exempted.

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Childs death from EEE prompts state regulators to find solutions

Oswego, N.Y. — New laws and policies regarding mosquito control are likely in New York next year, one senator said after a two-hour meeting outlining the state’s challenges in decreasing the numbers of insects that can carry deadly viruses.

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Americans do not have right to choose food

A Wisconsin judge has decided – in a fight over families’ access to milk from cows they own – that Americans “do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow.”

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Bill would Amend HPA to Include Slaughter Ban

If passed, H.R. 2966 would amend the HPA to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption and other purposes.

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