Food safety advocates, members of Congress and even some meat inspectors contend the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, which now employs 7,500 meat inspectors nationwide, is in disarray.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector tasked with ensuring safe food quality at meat processing plants died Thursday after testing positive for COVID-19, a source who was on a call in which ...

When then-PresidentSa Donald Trump issued an executive order to keep meatpacking plants open, that also required the USDA’s team of inspectors to stay on the job. Those inspectors, under the Food ...

Hundreds of federal meat inspectors have been exposed to COVID-19, ... said she gives the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service "an 'F' for protecting their own employees." ... remain on the job.

According to USA Jobs, a new FSIS food inspector for slaughter would be offered a starting salary of $33,394 to $53,773, which represents a federal government pay scale and grade of GS 05-07.

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A fourth U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety inspector died Wednesday from Covid-19, according to a union official, amid an outbreak of the virus in the nation’s meat processors.

A variation in language is central to the Agriculture Department’s efforts to make the most dramatic changes to federal meat-inspection policy since a 1906 law seized control of food safety from ...

Those inspectors, which are part of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), are tasked with ensuring worker and product safety at these plants. They’ve been declared essential workers, ...

NOBLESVILLE – Frank Violi is the president and owner of Butterfield Foods in Noblesville. He produces food in bulk then packs it and ships it to restaurants and supermarkets. “We make soups, … ...

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue visits Triumph Foods pork processing facility April 28, 2017. The facility houses 2,800 employees in St. Joseph, Mo. At eight months pregnant, government food ...

Employees at USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service say their biggest concern with the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System, ... about 147 food inspectors will lose their jobs.