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In late April and early May 2025, social media users claimed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would no longer require companies to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
Salmonella infections cost the US $4.1 billion annually, the USDA said. “USDA is taking science-based, decisive action to drive down Salmonella illnesses linked to poultry products ...
In fact, Ohio has the eighth highest risk for bacterial contamination in chicken, ground turkey and ground beef, with ...
The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat.… ...
USDA said that about 1 million American consumers get sick from salmonella each year. More than 23 percent of those illnesses are estimated to be tied to chicken and poultry products.
Jan. 8, 2014: USDA shuts one California plant, at Livingston, over a cockroach infestation, not salmonella Jan. 11: USDA gives the OK for the Livingston plant to reopen ...
An estimated 278 people in multiple states have been sickened by an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to raw chicken. Despite stories suggesting otherwise, USDA says its work on ...
USDA rolls back plans to limit salmonella levels in raw chicken, turkey. The agency said the Biden-era proposal would have been a burden on businesses.
The USDA says it will prevent 50,000 cases of illness each year. Skeptics say the agency needs to take a different approach to the salmonella problem because the current one has not worked very well.
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