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UMass-Amherst to lead national effort on animal disease
Another academic-led effort, this time to ensure early detection and tacking of diseased animals
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Grain operation BioTerror Act record keeping requirement nears
The different elements of a comprehensive monitoring and regulating the different aspects of the food supply come into effect, step by step
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Companies offering free consultation on FDA regulation 306 compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley created a veritable compliance industry, and the 2002 Bioterrorism Act, requiring the registration of 27 different kinds of farm and home animals, is creating another compliance industry
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Bioterrorism Act mandates registration of fish and shell fish
The 2002 act also requires registration of fish and shell fish caught in the wild; now, there’s a challenge (how do you register shrimp?)
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Ohio to develop plans to protect grocery stores from bioterrorism
Ohio is developing a comprehensive plan to monitor against terrorist poisoning of grocery supplies
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Japan re-imposes ban on U.S. beef
Japan, again, bans importation of U.S. beef owing to mad cow fears
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USDA conducts food safety drills around country
USDA emphasizes federal-state collaboration in securing nation’s food supply, and holds drills to test new policy
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Questions raised about national animal identification program
One of the more ambitious homeland security programs calls for tagging 27 different species of animals on U.S. farms and ranches by 2009, but critics say that it will drive small farmers out of business
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Time short for grain handlers to implement 2002 Bioterrorism Act record-keeping requirement
Grain handlers have six months left to initiate monitoring and reporting procedures to comply with demanding bioterror act
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U.S. launches National Animal Identification System; target date is 2009
Ambitious public safety measure gives livestock farmers three years to have each of their animals tagged for disease-related identification
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Johns Hopkins home to fifth Homeland Security Center of Excellence
Last month Johns Hopkins joined other academic centers to harness its considerable intellectual firepower on behalf of the nation’s security
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He should know
Leader of a Midwest research center predicts the government will invest more in protecting the nation’s food supply
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More U.S. cities buy JMAR's BioSentry water-monitoring system
Safety of water supply does not rank high in cities’ security planning; this is a mistake, and more and more cities are sharing this conclusion
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Vermont to require farmers to register cattle
In what may be only the first of many such moves Vermont will begin to register cattle in order better to monitor the spread of disease
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