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"USDA admits skipped meat plants checks for 30 yea... - 3/29/2007 5:13:33 PM

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"USDA admits skipped meat plants check for 30 years"

By Charles Abbott
1 hour, 39 minutes ago

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For three decades, U.S. inspectors visited 250 meat processing plants as rarely as once every two weeks despite federal law requiring daily inspection, Agriculture Department officials admitted to lawmakers on Thursday.

"All I can say is, it's been going on for a long time," said Undersecretary Richard Raymond to the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture. "It's going to stop now." "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/us_nm/usa_meat_usda_dc

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