Food & Water Watch Urges USDA to Rethink Equivalency Standards for Imported Meat
Washington, D.C —(ENEWSPF)—October 28, 2014. In response to last week’s discovery that a shipment of imported beef from Canada was contaminated with the pathogen E.coli 0157:H7, Food & Water Watch today urged USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to reassess the agency’s positions on equivalency for privatized inspection systems, stop the implementation of those systems domestically and uphold the U.S.-Canada border inspection program.
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