Sludge Watch ==> USDA lets contaminated meat go to market

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

This is a deeply disturbing story.  And USDA is investigating the spinach 
outbreak? Not reassuring.


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News Alert: USDA lets contaminated meat go to market
30.nov.06
Food & Water Watch Media Release
www.foodandwaterwatch.org

Food & Water Watch today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
objecting to a recent decision by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service 
to allow the Swift plant in Grand Island, Nebraska to sell beef that clearly 
should have been rejected for human consumption. The company doused 493 beef 
carcasses with the filth previously collected in the drains on its kill 
floor - which certainly would have included fecal material, pus from 
abscesses, cleaning chemicals, dirt that entered the plant on workers' 
shoes, and many other substances that should not come in contact with human 
food. FSIS should have followed its own regulations which specifically 
require that all product adulterated with polluted water be condemned. 
Instead, FSIS allowed Swift to "rework" the product and sell it with the 
USDA seal of inspection.
Below please find a link to the letter:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/meat-inspection-1/GI%20letter%20Raymond.pdf
For more information, visit www.foodandwaterwatch.org


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