IOWA: State-run inspections compromise food safety - (Des Moines Register)
September 9, 2007 – 11:55 pmTrent J. Berhow, president, Midwest Council of Food Inspection Locals, and vice chairman, National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals, American Federation of Government Employees,, Kiron, writes to say he takes exception to Neil Hamilton’s recommendation that state-inspected meat should enter into interstate commerce (”Take Integrated Approach to a Food-and-Farm Bill,” Aug. 26 guest editorial).
He argues that since the United States has imported Chinese food products that received little or no inspection, the current ban on state-inspected meat crossing state lines should be lifted.
The contaminated Chinese food products that have been subject of recent recalls here in the United States fall under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, not the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At present, no meat or poultry products from animals raised in China can be imported into the United States, so his comparison is misleading.
Twenty-seven states currently have their own meat-inspection programs. The states run […]
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