From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 17:04:07 MDT
Alfio Puglisi wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> >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.''
> >
>
> Here, at least, someone is watching the watchers and is concluding that
> the watchers have not great eyesight (not counting the delay...)
Yes, but you see the watchers have been watching for decades now and it
doesn't seem to be having any effect. Why do you think that is?
>
> >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.
> >....
>
> This is gross negligence. Europe departments were not better, anyway, as
> plagues like BSE have shown the world.
>
Yes it certainly seems to be the pattern that any kind of responsibility
government takes upon itself, it usually ends up doing a rather poorer
job at it than the private sector could.
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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