USDA Seeks to Expand Pilot Program Which Leaves Meat Contaminated With Fecal Matter

[marmar]

(Truthout) Is there poop in your pork and poultry? It’s a serious question.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has plans to expand a privatized meat inspection model that has been in place for 14 years at five hog plants in the United States and which has been found to fail time and time again at preventing contamination of meat - with fecal matter.

The program, known as the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point-Based Inspection Models Project - or HIMP - has been in place since the late 1990s and its expansion would replace almost half the USDA Food Safety Service inspectors in industrial meat plants with inspectors employed by those very same companies. It would reportedly speed up production lines by as much as 20 percent.

But a recent article in The Washington Post, reports that three out of the five pilot HIMP plants were among the 10 worst health and safety violators in the country, according to a spring report by the USDA inspector general. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/news/item/18866-usda-seeks-to-expand-pilot-program-which-leaves-meat-contaminated-with-fecal-matter

[newfie11]

1. Salmonella in burgers

Yummy.

[Wilms]

2. Just what we need.

So more shit.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. So ... "shit sandwich" is not just an expression anymore ? nt

[xchrom]

4. du rec.