David Jackson, National Chicken Council Chairman of the Board, has announced the names of those industry representatives who will serve on NCC’s 2026 Broiler Welfare, Communications, and Technical & Regulatory Committees. 

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Congress has departed Washington this week after negotiators failed to reach a deal on funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), all but ensuring a lapse in funding beginning tomorrow.

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House Republicans are expected to release Farm Bill text today, with the goal of conducting a markup later this month.

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NCC on Wednesday participated in a Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture event that marked the implementation of the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans with leaders from government, medicine, agriculture, industry and boxer Mike Tyson. Tyson appeared in a Super Bowl ad on behalf of the Make America Healthy Again Commission, speaking about the negative effects of “processed food.”

L-R: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; Mike Tyson; USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins

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NCC helps facilitate FSIS plant visits

On February 13, 2026, in Food Safety, by Tom

NCC this week helped to facilitate processing plant tours in Delaware with USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) leadership, to view plant operations and discuss various food safety issues.

L-R: Dr. Parrish Endy, Senior Advisor, Office of Food Safety; Stephanie (Stevie) Hretz, Director, Risk Management and Innovations Staff, Office of Policy and Program Development; Michael Starnes, Special Assistant, Office of Food Safety; Dr. Ashley Peterson, SVP Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, NCC; Dr. Justin Ransom, Administrator, USDA-FSIS; Dr. Mindy Brashears, Under Secretary for Food Safety

 

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation aimed at ending President Trump’s emergency declaration allowing him to levy tariffs on Canada, by a margin of 219-211. A half-dozen GOP lawmakers voted in support: Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky), Don Bacon (Neb), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa), Jeff Hurd (Colo), Kevin Kiley (Calif) and Dan Newhouse (Wash).

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The U.S. has unveiled new trade deals with Taiwan, North Macedonia and Bangladesh.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday finalized Guidance for Industry (GFI) #273: Defining Durations of Use for Approved Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs Fed to Food-Producing Animals. The guidance provides recommendations for how animal drug sponsors may voluntarily establish defined durations of use for certain antimicrobial drugs that are important in human medicine (medically important antimicrobial animal drugs) and have one or more indications that currently lack a defined duration of use.

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The USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) has been awarded nearly $7 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to help expand exports of U.S. poultry and eggs, the agency announced this week. NCC has been a long-standing advocate for full funding for the Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) program in Congress.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending February 7, 2026, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 178,360,000 broilers, a 6-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.

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