JACKSON — The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) will lead a delegation of state business leaders on a business development mission to Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, Israel from March 17-22. The trip is designed to connect Mississippi businesses looking to expand trade and create business relationships with opportunities in Israeli markets.
During the business development mission, [...] [...]
HATTIESBURG — Federal authorities in Mississippi have charged a man with possessing and selling ivory walrus tusks.
Abajo Renae Ingram is charged in the two-count criminal information filed in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg. The court document contains few details other than to say Ingram possessed and sold the tusks on two occasions in April 2007 [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Cargo tonnage at the Port of Pascagoula was up 27 percent through the third quarter compared to 2010, mostly due to liquefied natural gas coming into Gulf LNG Energy’s Bayou Casotte terminal.
Port director Mark McAndrews tells the Mississippi Press the beginning LNG shipments more than offset some declines in some of port’s traditional [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Public comments and evidence submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture overwhelmingly support broad inspection and regulation of all commercial catfish species imported or grown for sale to consumers in the United States, according to the USDA website.
Of the 280 comments posted on the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) official comment [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) have sent a bipartisan letter to Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou regarding recent efforts to restrict U.S. beef exports to Taiwan.
The letter was signed by U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).
The senators wrote, in part: “This past January, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration began rejecting [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — The Catfish Farmers of America says it welcomes streamlining U.S. government regulation of America’s food supply chain, but warns that back-peddling on critical seafood safety inspections and regulations will put consumers at greater risk.
In a new report, the Government Accountability Office questions the cost of transferring the regulation of catfish from the Food [...] [...]
GOLDEN — Three Mississippi companies have agreed to pay $2 million to resolve claims they illegally imported and sold more than 78,000 small engines made in China.
The engines did not meet federal air pollution standards, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice said in a joint news release.
The government’s lawsuit was filed in [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Several members of the Mississippi congressional delegation have asked federal authorities to investigate whether Chinese and other foreign furniture importers and exporters are skirting antidumping trade restrictions—practices that have hurt Mississippi wooden furniture makers in the past.
U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker and U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson and Travis Childers have signed [...] [...]
Sen. Thad Cochran (R.Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have joined in asking the federal government to help protect Mississippi consumers from companies and individuals offering questionable solutions for contaminated drywall imported from China.
In a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman Jon Leibowitz, the Mississippi senators joined in formally asking the FTC to investigate companies [...] [...]
In letters sent recently to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, three of the nation’s food safety watchdog groups and a U.S. congressman voiced their support for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspections for domestic and imported catfish species, as mandated by the 2008 Farm Bill.
The first letter was sent jointly by the Consumer Federation of [...] [...]
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