U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) earlier this week led a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan urging the agency to withdraw a proposed rule covering wastewater discharged by meat and poultry processors. Nine of their Senate Republican colleagues and 17 of their House Republican colleagues also joined the letter.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will exclude current commercial vaccine subtypes of Salmonella confirmed in FSIS raw poultry samples from the calculation used to categorize establishments under the raw poultry Salmonella performance standards. Effective April 1, 2024, the announcement was made in FSIS’s Constituent Update.
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