A slaughterhouse machine that blasts the last bits of flesh off cattle carcasses already relieved of their more recognizable cuts of beef is coming under increased scrutiny as the discovery of mad cow ...

The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced a regulatory sampling programme to ensure beef products derived from Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR) systems are ...

Am I just a crazy nerd or is this verbiage from the USDA hilarious and just plain scary? “MECHANICALLY SEPARATED POULTRY is a paste-like and batter-like poultry product produced by forcing bones with ...

Health and Consumer Groups Urge USDA to Keep Cattle Spinal Cord Tissue Out of Processed Meat The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Friday (10 August) petitioned the U.S. Department of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Meatpackers say new rules intended to keep mad cow disease out of the nation's beef supply could increase processing costs but will be worth it if they restore consumer ...

HELENA -- In the days after mad cow disease was found in a Washington state dairy cow last month, Americans picked up a couple of new phrases: Like ''downer cattle," animals that cannot walk due to ...