US: Witnesses call for revamped federal food safety regulations - (Science Progress)
February 28, 2008 – 8:33 pmhttp://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/hearing-on-food-safety/
A hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Tuesday reviewed a recent scandal over beef safety, which led to a massive recall of 143 million pounds of meat.
The hearing raised serious questions about both the ability of the United States Department of Agriculture to keep food-borne pathogens out of the food supply, and the problem of overlapping jurisdiction between the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the USDA. In January, the Humane Society of the United States released an undercover video which documented the cruel and illegal handling of sick cows which were immediately butchered; some of the meat was processed for school lunch programs.
Federal law prohibits butchering downer cows, which are are unable to stand on their legs, for food. The video, produced last fall, showed employees at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company in Chino, California circumventing […]
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