Sleeping with the enemy: Is FSIS making its food-safety assessments on the wrong plants? - (MeatPoultry.com)
February 7, 2008 – 6:35 pmStunned by the surge in E. coli adulterations that vexed the U.S. beef industry for much of 2007, the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service issued Notice 65-07 in late October, admitting that the sudden, dramatic increase in E. coli recalls raises “questions about the adequacy of the interventions and controls that beef operations
are employing to address this pathogen.”
But for John Munsell, the questions being raised, particularly by Notice 65-07, arent the right ones, and on January 18, at the invitation of USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Richard Raymond, he met with Raymond and the FSIS leadership to voice his concerns an interesting turn of events for the agency, which has in the past tended to turn a deaf ear to critics and naysayers.
In an email to MEAT & POULTRY, Munsell wrote that Raymond “established the meeting as an opportunity to discuss pros […]
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