USDA Announces $14.5 Million Food Safety Funding to States

The number of U.S. citizens becoming sick from contaminated food outbreaks increased in 2024.

People shop at a grocery store in Canton, Mich., on Oct. 11, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins will provide a “much-needed funding increase” of $14.5 million to states for their meat and poultry safety inspection programs, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a May 27 statement.

The funds will be provided as reimbursements.