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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump plans would replace federal pork plant inspectors with company employees
Doing away with "burdensome" regulation at the risk of people's health.
http://www.startribune.com/president-trump-plans-to-replace-federal-pork-plant-inspectors-with-company-employees/508082632/
The Trump administration plans to shift much of the power and responsibility for food safety inspections in hog plants to the pork industry as early as May, cutting the number of federal inspectors by about 40 percent and replacing them with plant employees.
Under the proposed new inspection system, the responsibility for identifying diseased and contaminated pork would be shared with plant employees, whose training would be at the discretion of plant owners. There would be no limits on slaughter-line speeds.
The new pork inspection system would accelerate the federal governments move toward delegating inspections to the livestock industry. The Trump administration in September allowed some poultry plants to increase line speeds.
The Trump administration also is working to shift inspection of beef to plant owners. USDA officials are scheduled next month to discuss the proposed changes with the meat industry.
These proposals, part of the Trump administrations broader effort to reduce regulations, come as the federal government is under fire for delegating some of its aircraft safety oversight responsibilities to Boeing, which developed the 737 Max jets involved in two fatal crashes over the past six months.
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Trump plans would replace federal pork plant inspectors with company employees (Original Post)
dflprincess
Apr 2019
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JDC
(10,129 posts)1. In other news, All Hen House to be guarded by Trump appointed Fox
Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)2. Can you say trichinellosis?
Start going back to overcooked pork. Just to be safe.
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)3. To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: "Some men will never do right when their salary depends on . . .
"Some men will never do right when their salary depends on doing what the boss demands."
Acts such as this could turn pork into "another blight meat."
Acts such as this could turn pork into "another blight meat."
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)4. What could possibly go wrong?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)5. But it worked out so well with Boeing!
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)6. Then why even bother
One shitty, shitty idea after another.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)7. Pork is off my food list.
Celerity
(43,408 posts)8. death cult continues