New Safety Rules Fail to Stop Tainted Meat

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Repeated discoveries by government inspectors of cattle manure on sides of beef , carcasses on the floor, maggots on the floor and machinery oil dripping onto meat at the Shapiro Packing meat plant are an example of the weaknesses of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new meat safety system, phased in between 1998 and 2000, which officials acknowledge has been plagued by lax enforcement of meat safety rules. The U.S.D.A.'s new rules transferred more responsibility for safety to meat packing plants themselves, whereas in the past inspectors patrolled plants and rejected or condemned diseased or otherwise defective meat carcasses. Now the inspectors merely look over workers' shoulders and try to assess whether safety measures are working. The U.S.D.A. does not have the authority to order a recall of meat, and can only urge a company to make a recall once contaminated meat is found, usually after it has been shipped and made customers ill, often from E. coli infections, which can be fatal.

Product standards, safety, & recalls, Animal Slaughtering and Processing, Management dynamics, Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities, Food Safety & Quality Service, Labor Distribution by Employer, Meat Incl Poultry, Product Recalls, Health aspects, Standards, Analysis, Management, Evaluation, Company legal issue, Cases, Product defects and recalls, Meat industry, Meat, Investigations, Prevention, Causes of, Statistics, Company business management, Contamination, Inspection, Food contamination, Escherichia coli infections, Food adulteration and inspection, Food inspection, Slaughtering and slaughter-houses, Slaughterhouses, Food safety, United States. Food Safety and Inspection Service, Product recall, Shapiro Packing Company Inc.

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U.S. Efforts to Hide Sensitive Data Pit 9/11 Concerns Against Safety

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Government officials that are attempting to thwart further terrorist attacks are running into local opposition from emergency response workers and environmental groups, because they are removing information that identifies hazardous materials, but in doing so are making people more vulnerable to routine accidents.

Refuse systems, Hazardous Waste Treatmnt,Storge,Disposl, Hazardous Waste Collection, International politics, Political aspects, Military policy, Environmental policy, Hazardous waste management, Hazardous wastes, Assistance in emergencies, Emergency assistance, War on Terrorism, 2001-

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Beef Imports From Canada To Resume

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Cattle prices fell, and beef industry and fast food stocks rose with the news that the United States will resume imports of Canadian beef. The normalization of cattle imports from Canada is seen as the first step in the resumption of American beef exports to Japan.

Canada, Sales & consumption, International economic relations, International aspects, Agricultural policy, Control, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Beef industry, Industry sales and revenue, Trade policy

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