I'm a little foggy on the timeline here. The first article is pretty current. It talks about the meat industry asking for an extension for providing comments to a petition to ban salmonella strains from meat. In googling to find the petition itself I found a number of older articles that are sort of the same thing. I'm assuming that the earlier attempts to ban salmonella-tainted meat failed.
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Meat industry wants more comment time for 'most significant policy change' in decades
Food safety attorney Bill Marler's petition to ban meat from containing any of 31 Salmonella outbreak serotypes "would be one of the most significant
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Can We Get to Zero Salmonella in Poultry? | FRONTLINE
Consumer advocates have been calling for zero tolerance of dangerous types of salmonella in poultry in order to reduce the number of people who get sick from the bacteria each year. But can we ever get to zero?
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Toxic Chicken: Petition Demands USDA Crack Down on Salmonella
A public interest group says the USDA should test for salmonella in meat and poultry without waiting for reports of illness.
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