WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday it will modernize its decades-old inspection methods for poultry in an attempt to crack down on food-borne illness. USDA's ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the final version of a controversial rule to overhaul national poultry inspection standards. The rule released Thursday afternoon puts an end to more ...

Federal workers’ unions and food safety groups have joined to oppose new rules proposed by the Department of Agriculture to streamline federal poultry inspections. The USDA’s Food Safety and ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2015 – U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson not only threw out a suit seeking to block USDA from implementing its new National Poultry Inspection System (NPIS), but she ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2014 – The advocacy group Food & Water Watch (FWW) has filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the implementation of new poultry inspection rules that would allow poultry ...

In an effort to continue progress toward reducing foodborne illnesses, we believe the poultry inspection system should be modernized to transition to a model that is more science- and risk-based. One ...

A woman cleans a smart layer chicken farm in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu Province on Sunday. Local poultry farms have over recent years introduced automatic and intelligent chicken farming equipment ...