On 8/28/2015 12:16 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2015-08-28, Dave Smith > wrote:
>> On 2015-08-28 11:06 AM, notbob wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-28, Opinicus > wrote:
>>>
>>>> What science says about food safety is of the utmost concern to the
>>>> food trade, hospitality.......
>>>
>>> You obviously have never watched an episode of Kitchen Nightmares.
>>>
>> It is of utmost concern to the people who are in the public health
>> business. If it was as important to everyone in the restaurant business
>> there would be a lot of inspectors would be out of a job.
>
> You sed "food trade". If the restaurant business is not the food
> trade, I don't know what is.
>
> Besides, inspectors are usually hamstrung, anyway. I'll not go
> looking for a cite, but I recall the female USDA inspector who was
> constantly harrassed and finally run out of the dept for consciously
> trying to impose USDA stds and improve conditions at a major meat
> packing plant. Perhaps things are all rosy and hunky-dory in good ol'
> Canada (which I doubt), but govt inspectors in the US are a bad joke.
>
> nb
>

As is the fractional percentage of food that even get's inspected:

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/1...t-inspections/

Investigation: USDA Quietly Eliminated 60 Percent of Foreign Meat
Inspections
Agency also lacks foreign audit transparency

http://www.kansascity.com/news/gover...le1615736.html

Food safety advocates, members of Congress and even some meat inspectors
contend the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, which now employs
7,500 meat inspectors nationwide, is in disarray.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117992

“The Jungle 2000,” — the report by the Government Accountability
Project, a Washington-based public-interest law firm, and Public
Citizen, a Washington-based consumer group — surveys conditions reported
by 451 federal meat inspectors at 92 percent of the country’s
meat-processing plants.

The groups say the inspection system — begun by the Clinton
administration five years ago and called the Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Point program — weakens the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s authority by giving industry a larger role in monitoring
safety.

....

On one question, 210 inspectors out of 327 indicated that since the new
inspection program began at their plant, there had been instances when
they had not taken direct action against contamination in meat such as
feces, vomit and metal shards. The inspectors said they would have taken
action under the old system. And 206 of the 210 say such contamination
occurs daily or weekly.