New USDA Poultry Inspection Rules Jeopardize Public Health, say Critics
The United States Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday new rules for its poultry inspection program that critics fear still leave food and worker safety at risk.
In a statement announcing the overhaul, the USDA says the new system will “prevent thousands of illnesses each year.” But under the new rules, some of the inspections that had been done by USDA inspectors will now be done by the companies themselves, a situation critics have called “the fox guarding the hen house.”
The Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign (FIC) is among those who have sounded alarm about the plan.
Alyssa Doom, Investigation & Outreach Coordinator for the FIC, writes that this shifting of inspections to the company
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