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Health and Fitness

Privatized Meat Inspection Experiment Jeopardizes Food Safety

by Press on October 9, 2015

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An analysis based on inspection documents and non-compliance reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveals large numbers of defects being missed in the USDA’s controversial pilot project for privatized poultry inspection.