KANSAS: Inspections outdated - (Wichita Eagle)
April 8, 2008 – 9:38 pmhttp://www.kansas.com/205/story/363894.html
Dan Glickman, a former member of Congress from Wichita who served as secretary of agriculture during the Clinton administration and Mike Taylor, who served as administrator of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, write in this op-ed that one might be tempted to conclude from recent video showing abuses of cattle at the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. that responsibility rests with one profit-hungry company and a few inspectors not doing their jobs.
But that would be a big mistake.
The failure at Hallmark/Westland is symptomatic of a meat and poultry inspection system that is antiquated and not up to the task of the modern era.
Congress gives the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service about $1 billion a year to put 7,500 inspectors in nearly 6,000 meat and poultry slaughter and processing plants every day. These plants are high-risk places and certainly deserve a lot of inspection, but not […]
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