3-25 news: Montana Senator proposes amendment to trace E. coli back to slaughterhouse
Currently, contaminated meat products are only traced back to the packing plant or butcher shop they came from. But dangerous food contamination often begins earlier in the supply chain—at the slaughterhouse, where meat sometimes comes into contact with animal hides or manure.
Tester’s legislation requires the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service to design and implement - using its existing budget - an initiative to trace tainted meat back to the original source of contamination. The bill also improves testing at meat suppliers and individual meat processors in the case of an outbreak.