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The Agriculture Department's proposal to largely outsource poultry inspections functions and drastically speed up the visual inspection process violates federal law and must not be allowed to proceed.
In a blog that was published on Friday, April 13 on the Huffington Post, FSIS Administrator Alfred Almanza attempted to clarify some of the misconceptions behind the agency's proposed chicken inspection changes.
“Comparing the U.S. meat inspection system to the days of Upton Sinclair, as The Post did in the March 5 front-page article 'Taking new look at food inspection,' was misleading to readers and an insult to the 8,000 meat and poultry inspectors who are present in 6,400 plants every day.”
FSIS is proposing a modernization of young chicken and turkey slaughter inspection in the United States by focusing FSIS inspection resources on the areas of the poultry production system that pose the greatest risk to food safety.
A panel has recommended that the USDA make meat and egg inspection data more accessible to the public, according to a report in the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing a new requirement for the meat and poultry industry that, once enacted, will reduce the amount of unsafe food that reaches store shelves.
Nebraska state senators advanced a bill that would allow for a state meat inspection program and possibly a horse slaughter and processing facility, and the chair of the state's Agriculture Committee slammed the Humane Society of the United States in the process.