From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 07:08:38 MDT
For Alfio! :-)
This particular inspection system (food) has been seriously sloppy for
many many years, yet it continues to not improve.
-- Report: Food inspections deficient Problems go by inept inspectors Elliot Jaspin - Cox Washington Bureau Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Washington --- The federal government's new science-based system of food inspections is in disarray, according to a draft report prepared for Congress. The report by the General Accounting Office concluded that inadequately trained food inspectors are unable to spot problems at a majority of the nation's thousands of meat and poultry plants. GAO investigators also found that nearly all of the 47 plants that it sampled had food safety programs that ''failed to meet regulatory requirements.'' Despite these shortcomings, the report said, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees food safety, continued to allow plants to ship meat and poultry for consumption by the public, even though tests repeatedly found some were laced with either hazardous bacteria or feces. .... -- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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