A typical example of government monopolistic inspection/regulation

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.

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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. 
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Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/


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