The Meat Safety News Archives
*Public Citizen Posts Truth On Food Irradiation - Posted 5/12
FSIS Administrator Mendaciously Maligns the Union's Motives in recent public meeting - Webposted 5/02
E. coli Attorney Marler Calls For States to End School Poisonings - 4/7 BW HealthWire
April Fools' Day
Joke? Or a Deliberate Attempt by the USDA to Fool Consumers? -
Public Citizen Press Release
"Once again, the USDA is
pandering to the meat industry instead of protecting Americans..." (Posted
4/1/2000)
Disease Halts Korean Meat Imports to Many Countries - Reuters3/29
Pilot Inspection Program for Chickens Questioned - 3/17 Times-Journal Ft Payne, AL
Local 2323: New Officers & Home Page Content - 3/13
Raw Ground Beef Often Tainted With E.coli -FOXNews 3/2
Message From NJC Chairman Delmer Jones on FSIS' plans to eviscerate inspection via the 2001 budget - Posted 02/08
Miscarriage, Birth Defects, "Too High a Price
to Pay"
USDA Petitioned to Require Meat
Processors to Conduct Safety Tests
- CSPI Press Release (Posted 1/18)
Union,
FSIS Officials Meet to Discuss CSO Positions
"The union
successfully lobbied Congress to withhold funds this year"
- Food Regulation Weekly (Posted 1/14)
2 Weeks After Obtaining a Court Order Blocking the Gov't From Closing the Plant, Meat Processor Recalls 180,000 lbs of Meat For E.coli - Dallas Morning News 12/26
*License to
Kill by Rebecca Gants, Meat&Poultry Mag Oct 99
"So is the
new inspection model license to kill the inspectors’ union or the intent of the
Federal Meat and Poultry Products inspection acts?" ...
The Canadian Western Producer Nov 4th issue publishes an article warning of that Government not to follow the USA's deregulatory lead: Keep Inspections!*
USDA "streamlines" Sanitation
Regulation
By Removing/Replacing the Entire Section 308!
An Industry
Perspective on the Change
The Text of the New Regulation
as it appears in the Federal
Register
Alarming Criteria for HACCP Slaughter Models - Webposted 10/3
"Control Levels"
include...
Digestive tract tissue: 2/10
Breast Blister, Cadaver, Sores, Scabs: 6/10
Feathers, Hair, Lung: 8/10 !
"A Killer In Our Food" Detroit Free Press Special 5-Part Report!
FSIS OK's Aussie Deregulation as "equivalent" -6/7
Filth
In Meat - 4/13 DesMoines Register
Despite HACCP, Inspectors tell of feces on chicken, pork & beef
CDC: E.coli Cases Increased 22% in '98 -3/12 ABC News
"Should
Kansas Be In the Meat Inspection Business?"
"...workers at one Kansas plant rolled a carcass across a floor
covered with dead flies and dirt before hoisting it onto a table for cutting . . . A
spokesman for (Kansas Governor) Graves dismissively said nobody cares about the
issue except The Topeka Capital-Journal." - Topeka Capital-Journal
10/04
Kansas Processor Calls 911 to Remove Inspectors - Topeka Capital-Journal 10/02/98
HACCP Handcuffs "The idea of removing the handcuffs by cutting off the hands of the inspectors is ludicrous." - WebPosted 9/19
NJC: Comments on recent Ag Subcommittee hearing on HACCP-06/30/98
Industry Reps Apparently Agree With Us On Uselessness of Records Inspections: "you can't just simply look at pieces of paper and make a judgment call" - AMI's Kim Rice.Webposted 5/28/98
Nebraska Local 3749 Installs New Officers - 5/18/98
Inspectors' Union Files Suit vs USDA FSIS
Deregulation -4/13 "This is
a back-door attempt to change administratively what Congress would never consider changing
legislatively..." - AFGE National Pres Bobby Harnage.
Text of the Lawsuit-WebPosted 5/4/98
Inspector's Congressional Testimony - WebPosted 2/3
An NJC Perspective on HACCP - 11/97
HACCP Training Ends in "Mass Confusion" -11/97
Inspectors Speak Out on SSOP
Implementation
Industry Objects to 'Net Accessible
Inspection Reports --03/07
Increased Use of Science Should Not
End Inspectors' Work
Consumers May Be Buying Mislabeled
Food
