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Food Contact Surfaces

By Michael Fisher | December 20, 2019

Food Contact Surfaces

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Services inspectors routinely cite 9 CFR 416.4(a) and 9 CFR 416.4(b) when alleging noncompliance because these regulations are not straight forward. They rest on terms with no official….

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This article can be found in: Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: federal regulations, food freedom, food safety, meat processing, Michael Fisher, poultry, USDA

TAKE ACTION: USDA’s Proposed Changes Could Hurt Small Beef Processors!

By Farm-to-Consumer | December 13, 2019

Ground Meat - USDA Salmonella Action Alert

Under the new proposal, FSIS would take the same number of samples from a small facility that processes 50,000 pounds/day as from a large facility that processes a million or more pounds of product per day. Act now to protect small beef processors! Deadline to submit comments is Dec. 27…

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This article can be found in: Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: Action Alerts, federal legislation, federal regulations, food freedom, food rights, food safety, legislation, meat processing, slaughterhouses, USDA

Equipment and Utensils

By Michael Fisher | October 18, 2019

Equipment & Utensils

Sanitation requirements for equipment and utensils found in the Bureau of Animal Industry sanitation regulations, first published as 7 CFR 8 in the 1938 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), remain intact. But times have changed. Stainless steel and plastic have replaced cast iron, steel, and…

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This article can be found in: Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: federal regulations, food freedom, food safety, meat processing, Michael Fisher, poultry, USDA

Dressing Rooms, Lavatories, and Toilets

By Michael Fisher | August 21, 2019

Dressing Rooms, Lavatories, and Toilets Michael Fisher post

This is the last article in a series about facilities. Dressing rooms, lavatories, and toilets are a life necessity. We do not talk about them much, but we cannot avoid them. If you prepare food for human consumption, they are essential because this is where you maintain your personal…

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This article can be found in: Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: federal regulations, food freedom, food safety, meat processing, Michael Fisher, poultry, USDA

Water Supply

By Michael Fisher | July 24, 2019

I took precautions yet I still contracted Shigella dysenteriae. Most likely this was from consuming fresh fruit from a vendor who washed it with water contaminated with human feces. You cannot take the safety of the water for granted. 9 CFR 416.2(g) shares…

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This article can be found in: Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: federal regulations, food freedom, food safety, meat processing, Michael Fisher, poultry, USDA

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