Evidently in the US of A, we all are ...
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18866-usda-seeks-to-expand-pilot-program-which-leaves-meat-contaminated-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.
"The USDA all along has been saying that these pilots will prove that
removing government inspectors and turning over [their] the
responsibilities to the company employees will enhance food safety when,
in essence, the exact opposite has occurred," said Tony Corbo, who
directs the food program at nonprofit Food & Water Watch."
Nice work Truthout!
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