The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is tasked with overseeing the introduction of new genetically engineered crops.
Companies and institutions that seek to grow new GMO varieties commercially need to first secure USDA approval through a formal petition process. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has kept track of those petitions since the early 1990s.
Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Public Citizen and American Oversight show how industry helped shape a federal order to keep meat plants open during the pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is — for the second time — delaying the implementation of organic rules for the treatment and living conditions of poultry and livestock.
A group of eight Democratic senators on Tuesday called upon three federal departments to investigate whether billionaire investor — and adviser to President Donald Trump — Carl Icahn violated insider trading laws for his activity in the renewable fuel credits market.
Salmonella and campylobacter caused the most reported bacterial foodborne illnesses in 2016, preliminary data recently released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FoodNet program has found.
