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The agency will look to revise its guidelines for meat producers. The seal of approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on meat and poultry you see at the grocery store may soon carry more ...
New rules from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will make it harder to claim the "organic" label on foods. The department announced this week it will strengthen enforcement of its current ...
A Texas bill on the verge of becoming law would require labels on packaged food from Skittles to Mountain Dew that warn about ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking steps to help protect consumers from misleading labels on meat. Many consumers opt for meat raised without antibiotics for health reasons or ...
Now it has the official blessing of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is funding Tyson’s efforts to expand the market for its ostensibly lower-emissions products and, last March, approved a ...
The Agriculture Department on Monday issued a proposed new regulation restricting “Product of the USA” labels on meat, poultry and eggs to animals born and raised in the U.S. The proposal ...
Although the USDA touts that these updated guidelines will protect consumers from “false and misleading labels,” AWI believes that the department should require—not merely “strongly ...
USDA is working through a backlog of much-needed updates to labels for meat and poultry, and anticipates publishing this year or early next several proposed rules, including for uncured and ...
WASHINGTON — The US Food and Drug Administration and the US Department of Agriculture are taking another look at food date labels, namely at how they’re used by food producers and ...