Suit filed against new pork company self-inspection rule
“The USDA is letting the wolf guard the hog-house”
Several food safety advocacy organizations have filed a legal action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for issuing New Swine Inspection System (NSIS) rules that that they say undermine pork-safety inspection in slaughter plants.
Food & Water Watch (FWW) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) are calling the new NSIS rules “a draconian reversal to the swine slaughter inspection system that has existed in the United States since 1906, which required meat inspectors to examine each animal for conditions like septicemia and salmonella before and after slaughter.” Read the full action here.