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The United States Center for Food Safety has found twice as many food safety violations at pork-packing plants where employees rather than government staff inspect carcasses.
The self-inspection system was begun in 2020 under former U.S. President Donald Trump who campaigned to reduce government regulation.
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New data shows that in the years leading up to the Trump administration’s approval of new inspection rules for swine slaughter plants, those establishments that piloted the system – which relies on company employees conducting inspections instead of government inspectors – had significantly more regulatory violations for feacal and digestive matter on carcasses than traditional plants, the Center For Food Safety reported.
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February 19, 2021
Parties arguing that a new pork inspection rule from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) eliminates necessary precautions and inspections filed their second amended complaint in the Northern District of California lawsuit on Thursday. The plaintiffs, including the Center for Food Safety, the Food & Water Watch, and the Humane Farming Association, claimed that the new rule lowers the quality of swine inspection requirements by turning the responsibility for inspections over to the companies involved in slaughtering and processing swine.
The contested rule published on October 11, 2019, in the Federal Register, is known as the New Swine Inspection System (NSIS). According to the amended complaint, in addition to allowing companies to perform their own inspections, it lifts limits on production speeds which in turn makes inspections more difficult.