Tag: meat
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Guidance on Antimicrobials in Animals Released
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released guidance on the use of “medically important antimicrobials” in “food-producing animals.” The guidance describes a voluntary process that “will help ensure new animal drugs containing antimicrobials of human importance are administered only under veterinary oversight and only for therapeutic uses.” The agency will accept comments on the…
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Meatpacking Executives Plead Guilty to Selling Adulterated Beef
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that two executives of a meatpacking plant pleaded guilty to selling 775,000 pounds of adulterated meat—”including whole cow hearts labeled as ‘ground beef’”— for more than $1 million to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The executives’ company, West Texas Provisions, falsely marketed its products as inspected by…
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Red Meat Review Finds Alternate Conclusions on Health Effects
Researchers have published a review of studies evaluating the effects of “reducing red meat intake on clinically important outcomes” and purportedly showed that red meat may not have the carcinogenic effects that previous studies have found. Zeraatkar et al., “Effect of Lower Versus Higher Red Meat Intake on Cardiometabolic and Cancer Outcomes: A Systematic Review…
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CSPI Submits Petition on Nitrate, Nitrite Labeling
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Consumer Reports have petitioned the Food Safety and Inspection Service, requesting the agency “clarify the labeling of processed meats.” “Specifically, we ask that the agency cease requiring that such products be labeled ‘Uncured,’ and/or ‘No Nitrate or Nitrite Added’ when they have been processed using…
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Mississippi Proposes Amendments to “Meat” Definition Bill
Mississippi’s bill restricting the use of animal-derived food products to describe plant-based foods, which has been in effect since July 2019, has reportedly received proposed amendments that would allow food companies to use such words if they are modified by vegetable-associated qualifiers, such as “veggie,” “meatless” or “plant-based.” The updated regulation would also allow food…
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UK House of Lords Subcommittee Argues Against Meat Definition Laws
The EU Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.K. House of Lords has submitted a letter to the country’s agriculture minister in response to a EU committee’s approval of a measure that would prohibit the use of meat-associated words and phrases—including “sausage,” “burger” and “steak”—to describe plant-derived products. “Veggie tubes proposal a misteak,” the subcommittee’s…
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FDA Approves Soy Leghemoglobin as Color Additive
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that soy leghemoglobin has been approved for use “as a color additive in ground beef analogue products” following a petition submitted by Impossible Foods. The announcement notes that the agency previously found soy leghemoglobin to be generally recognized as safe as a flavor additive. “FDA concurs…
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Tofurky Co. Challenges Arkansas Meat Law
Turtle Island Foods, which does business as The Tofurky Co., has filed a civil-rights action alleging an Arkansas law that “prohibits purveyors of plant- or cell-based meats from using the words ‘meat’ and related terms like ‘beef,’ ‘pork,’ ‘roast,’ and ‘sausage’” is “a restriction on commercial speech that prevents companies from sharing truthful and non-misleading…