USDA Increases Funding to Reimburse States for Food Safety Inspections

USDA Announces $14.5 Million Food Safety Funding to States

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will provide a “much-needed funding increase” of $14.5 million to states for their meat and poultry safety inspection programs, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a May 27 statement. The funds will be provided as reimbursements. “Without this funding, States may not have the resources to continue their own inspection programs which ensure products are safe,” the agency said. In the statement, Rol…

USDA increases funding for state meat and poultry inspection programs

Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries Rick Pate announced Tuesday that USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins is exercising USDA’s authority to use funds received as part of the FY 2025 Non-Recurring Expense Fund to provide an additional $14.54 million to increase reimbursement rates for states with meat and poultry inspection programs up to the former 50 percent, as authorized in the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Insp…

USDA increases funding to reimburse states for food safety inspections

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced she will exercise the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) authority to provide a funding increase of $14.5 million in reimbursements to states for meat and poultry inspection programs. The USDA explains without this funding, states may not have the resources to continue their own inspection programs to ensure products are safe. Two juveniles arrested after…

FDA needs additional state help to do its job - Investigate Midwest

Let’s be honest. The Food and Drug Administration is a huge dumpster fire when it comes to complying with federal food inspection laws.In January of this year, the U.S Government Accountability Office reported that FDA has not met its domestic and foreign inspection targets since fiscal year 2018. That’s six years and counting.Some years the inspection numbers are gosh awful. For instance, in fiscal year 2021 FDA failed to inspect about 49% of h…

USDA boosts funding for food safety inspections

About $14.5 million in additional funding to help reimburse states for meat and poultry inspections.

Food Safety and Cultivated Meat  - Health Journal Online

What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In a 1932 article in Popular Mechanics entitled “Fifty Years Hence,” Winston Churchill predicted that we would one day “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Indeed, growing meat straight from muscle cells could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as m…