Carmen Rottenberg

As the government shutdown continues, consumers may be concerned what USDA services are and are not being offered.  Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Food Safety Carmen Rottenberg FSIS inspectors are on-site at every plant for slaughter facilities during all hours of operation." ...

The message from the USDA is simple, the food of the future is already here. "As technology advances, we hear about the possibility of food products being created not from a traditional raising of livestock or raising of poultry and slaughtering them, but actually being able to take cells from animals and grow up products in a laboratory or bio-reactor in a facility that can essentially grow

New technology is helping federal officials link salmonella illness cases in different parts of the country to the same pathogen.     "They're able to make those associations through the use of whole-genome sequencing technology in a way, I think, previously you might have thought that five people from one state, and four people from another state, and three people somewhere else, are getting

You may have seen a Consumer Reports article recently that alleges the Agricultural Department's Meat Inspection System has been finding trace amounts of drugs residues in meat samples, and not stopping that meat from being marketed.  The magazine based that article on partial screening data received from USDA, however,     "This reliance on a document that contains data that "Consumer R

A 2014 Government Accountability Office audit of the USDA's food safety and inspection service recommended improving on farm practices to reduce packages that contaminate processed meat and poultry.   "This is an area in which FSIS does not actually have on farm or pre-harvest jurisdiction. We ...