Food supply chain safety

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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Final food security rule issued by FDA under Bioterrorism Act
New rule covers record-keeping related to human and animal food
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