Contaminated Meat Goes to Market
November 30, 2006
News Item: The U.S. Department of Agriculture decides to allow contaminated meat go to market.
News Alert
Food & Water Watch today sent a letter to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture objecting to a recent decision by
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to allow the Swift plant in
Grand Island, Nebraska to sell beef that clearly should have been
rejected for human consumption. The company doused 493 beef carcasses
with the filth previously collected in the drains on its kill floor –
which certainly would have included fecal material, pus from abscesses,
cleaning chemicals, dirt that entered the plant on workers’ shoes, and
many other substances that should not come in contact with human food.
FSIS should have followed its own regulations which specifically
require that all product adulterated with polluted water be condemned.
Instead, FSIS allowed Swift to “rework” the product and sell it with
the USDA seal of inspection.
Please click here to 
download the full letter or here to read it online.
- Read the Dow Jones Newswire story
- For more information, you can check out our meat inspection page or explore our other food campaigns.
- You could also watch a fun animation about meat packing plants from our friends at The Meatrix.
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