It's time for another Chew on This podcast. This week's topic: Food Safety Across Borders.

More and more people these days want to know where their food comes from. How can we tell if it’s safe? How do we know what country it came from? What does animal identification have to do with the meat, eggs and dairy products that we enjoy? In this new Chew on This podcast, Dr. Barbara Masters, Senior Policy Advisor at Olsson Frank Weeda P.C and former Administrator of the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service, talks about the safety of food imported into the U.S. and answers questions about labeling and animal identification. Listen to the podcast now.

In case you missed it, the final law on the Country of Origin Labeling program, or COOL, took effect this week. You can read our post on COOL here.

And finally, learn more about the National Animal Identification System, another crucial program in tracking our food supply by going here.