WASHINGTON — Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture responded on Wednesday to reports claiming the agency’s former inspector general was forcibly removed from her office after resisting her dismissal from the ...

US Rep. Jill Tokuda led 32 lawmakers in urging the US Department of Agriculture to re-hire terminated agricultural inspectors ...

(USDA photo courtesy of Bailing Out Benji) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspector general says the agency has failed to inspect dog breeders in a timely fashion and failed to ensure that ...

In December 2014, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit that was highly critical of the department’s enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (as ...

U.S. Agriculture Department officials have launched an internal investigation into how the agency handled reports of serious problems at a Boar’s Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly listeria ...

In a 2010 audit, the USDA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that these industry-run inspections pose an inherent conflict of interest and fail to protect horses from abuse.