AFGE Files Suit to Stop USDA’s ‘Filthy’ Poultry Inspection Rule

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/AFGE-Files-Suit-to-Stop-USDA-s-Filthy-Poultry-Inspection-Rule




10/23/2014Mike Hall

AFGE filed suit Monday to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA's) new poultry inspection rule that replaces 25% of the current USDA-trained food safety inspectors with poultry company employees and speeds up the processing lines by 400%. AFGE President J. David Cox said:

The USDA’s new inspection process flies in the face of reality and will allow potentially contaminated and diseased poultry to be sold to American consumers. It’s ridiculous, dangerous and against the law, and it must be stopped.

The rule went into effect Monday and because it gives the poultry processer an increased role and authority in the food safety inspections AFGE says it “puts the fox in charge of the henhouse.”

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A review of the pilot program by the group Food & Water Watch found company employees charged with inspecting the birds were missing many defects and allowing birds contaminated with feathers, bile and feces to pass down the line.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Been in a chicken kill plant.

What a filthy place. Watched inspectors do their jobs. Bottom line,there is no way a bunch of non Ag trained people would be able to do their jobs.