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  • From: "Liz" <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Government tightening food safety standards
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:43:32 -0400


So charge the processors for FDA inspections. then there's plenty of money
for inspections. After all, it's their fault we have to inspect because
they don't. What could be more fair?

Sure, why not? The processors can just pass the cost along to the consumers anyway.

What concerns me about this report is the emphasis on attacking the symptoms rather than the causes.

Quote--"Egg and poultry producers will have to follow new standards designed to
reduce salmonella contamination, including increased testing and
refrigeration for eggs."

If the hens weren't kept in such barbaric unsanitary conditions, there would be far less salmonella and other disease conditions to worry about. If more and smaller growers were encouraged, it would be easier to trace salmonella outbreaks as well.

Quote--"The Food Safety Inspection Service, the Agriculture Department agency
that inspects meat, will increase sampling of ground beef ingredients in an
effort to better find E. coli contamination."

Again, if the cows weren't confined in grossly unsanitary conditions and fed a diet that makes them vulnerable to disease, there would be far less e.coli to worry about, and growers wouldn't need to routinely feed anti-biotics.

But that's preaching to the choir, and most other people don't want to hear it.

Liz
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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