While food imports have increased, the percentage of shipments inspected by the FDA has declined from 1.8 percent in 2003, to 1.3 percent this year to an expected 1.1 percent next year. That's not much consolation for the folks whose pets died earlier this year after eating pet food laced with melamine, an ingredient that also went into swine and poultry feed. Add to that the Food and Drug Administration's limited capacity to inspect food as it comes in this year it will test about 1.3...

Douglass is urging more small farm owners who have poultry to register their farms in the premise identification system. This made our response effort much more difficult than it needed to be in that we had to devote vital personnel to literally driving every road in the area to look for farms with poultry. Many producers feel registering their farms and flocks is giving up their privacy and, to some degree, control of their flocks. State Veterinarian Joe Starcher points out that the...

The Czech Republic has around 700 professional poultry farms with hundreds of thousands of private citizens also breeding poultry. Health authorities, who threw up a three-kilometre (two-mile) and 10-kilometre cordon around the poultry farm on Wednesday, started to slaughter the remainder of the flock on Thursday, according to Czech television. Nonetheless, Czech health minister Tomas Julinek said that health workers at the turkey farm would "preventively" be given Tamiflu, the drug judged...

The increasing demand for corn to make ethanol motor fuel and feed cattle also has been blamed for driving up food prices, although no research has been done to back up that claim, Ockert said. Although gasoline gets all the attention for price increases, costs are growing for another necessary commodity: food and beverages. Just in time for this summer's outdoor grilling season, beef prices increased 5.1 percent, poultry 4.3 percent and pork 3.4 percent in the first five months of this...

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