Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Um-m yeah, about that hamburger your about to eat.
From USA Today:
Limits have not been set by the EPA and FDA "for many potentially harmful substances, which can impair [Food Safety and Inspection Service] enforcement activities," the audit found.Mexican food inspection is better that the USA. No wonder the GOP wants to keep immigrants out, they might tell people.
The FSIS said in a written statement that the agency has agreed with the inspector general on "corrective actions" and will work with the FDA and EPA "to prevent residues or contaminants from entering into commerce."
Even when the inspection service does identify a lot of beef with high levels of pesticide or antibiotics, it often is powerless to stop the distribution of that meat because there is no legal limit for those contaminants.
In 2008, for example, Mexican authorities rejected a U.S. beef shipment because its copper levels exceeded Mexican standards, the audit says. But because there is no U.S. limit, the FSIS had no grounds for blocking the beef's producer from reselling the rejected meat in the United States.
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