The USDA is pushing back at the Washington Post for an
article falsely claiming the proposed New Swine Slaughter Inspection System
would turn pork inspection over to plant employees. FSIS Administrator Carmen
Rottenberg tells Brownfield, by law, only federal inspectors do meat
inspections and to do otherwise would be incredibly irresponsible, “ONLY the
USDA inspectors can apply that mark of inspection. Consumers rely on that mark
and so it’s very concerning to make the kind of statements that were made in
the Washington Post to imply that we are reducing inspections.”
Ag Secretary Perdue explained the system to lawmakers at a
hearing on Capitol Hill last week, “Most of this effort has to do with
pre-sorting the animals.
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