The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) saw a 40% jump in food safety complaints in fiscal year 2025, according to a new report from the federal agency. The FSIS oversees meat, poultry, and egg products in the U.S. and received 2,016 complaints , the highest number since the USDA’s Consumer Complaint Monitoring System was established in 2001. Food safety complaints to FSIS for fiscal year 2025, which covers October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, were up 39.7% from fiscal year 2024, when 1,443 complaints were received . The last big spike in complaints occurred in 2019, during President Donald Trump’s first term, when the agency received 1,693 complaints, up from 1,294 in 2018. Graph: USDA FSIS The annual report for 2025 shows that foreign objects were the most common type of complaint, accounting for 35.7% of the total.…