Meat and poultry products (beef, poultry, pork, lamb and goat) inspected under state inspection programs may only be sold within the borders of the state in which it is inspected. Rick Kirchhoff, NASDA executive vice president, pointed out that under current law, meat and poultry products from 34 foreign countries can be freely shipped and sold anywhere in the United States, but domestic small businesses and processors cannot. Three USDA advisory committees have recommended that the...

Kimberly Lord Stewart, editor in chief of Dining Out Magazine and author of "Eating Between the Lines," said most shoppers are ill-equipped to decipher the language of labeling and understand which terms represent factual claims and which are simply what the advertising industry calls puffery. A trip to the grocery store can take some super sleuthing skills as the origins and content of your food are shrouded in ad industry puffery Let's play a word association game with some Vancouver...

The ban introduced recently on the import of eggs from Saudi Arabia in the wake of the bird flu scare and traders' reluctance to import poultry products from elsewhere are being cited as the main factors behind the shortage. A company owning a major poultry farm in the country told an Arabic daily here yesterday that it was working at full capacity and its supplies were not affected at all. India had emerged as a major exporter of eggs to Qatar after restrictions were imposed on the import...

It certainly gives you some bona fide, third-party credentials to talk about the working conditions within a meat plant and the people employed by the major beef packers. From the summer of 1987 until early 1990 members of our team lived on and off in Garden City, where we carried out systematic research on the relations between new immigrant Southeast Asians (largely Vietnamese) and Latinos (mainly from Mexico) and established Anglo and Mexican Americans. From the summer of 1987 until...

As well, a flu vaccine can t be made until scientists have a strain of the virus, which will be after the pandemic has begun, and at that point, the vaccine takes nine months to produce. Allias explained that a pandemic is a global disease outbreak, and an influenza pandemic would be caused when a new strain emerges that the general population has little immunity to. It s not a question of if a flu pandemic will hit the United States, but when, said county health officials at a panel...