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Food Inspection

Should Contaminated Food Really Be Killing So Many People?

Bloomberg View | the Editors | Posted 10.13.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Food Poisoning, Cantaloupe, Fda, Food Inspection, Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011, Peanuts, Business News

Bloomberg View Contaminated food sickens 48 million Americans, resulting in more than 3,000 deaths and more than 100,000 hospitalizations each year...

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Food Inspector Gets Jail For Bribery Scheme

Posted 08.31.2012 | Home
Read More: Video, Food Inspector Bribery, Food Inspector Bribe, Food Inspector, Food Inspection, Chicago Food Inspector Jail, Home News

A former food inspector for the Chicago Public Health Department has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for taking bribes for food safet...

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Rachel Mendleson

A Thousand Cuts: Food Inspectors Fall Victim To Austerity

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 07.17.2012 | Politics
Read More: Austerity Budgets, Listeriosis Outbreak, Meat Inspectors, Budget Cuts, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Food Inspection Canada, Meat Industry, Canada Food Safety, Austerity, Listeria Outbreak, Listeriosis, Austerity Cuts, Food, Food Safety, Austerity Measures, Food Inspection, A Thousand Cuts, Politics News

This article is part of a Huffington Post series on the global impact of austerity -- "A Thousand Cuts" -- from affordable housing funds lost in San F...

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Cynicism 101

Gillian Clark | Posted 07.11.2012 | DC
Read More: Cynicism, DC Resaturants, Restaurant Health Inspections, Health-Inspectors, Health Inspections, Cynical, Food Inspection Guidelines, Food Inspection, Health Inspectors, DC News
Gillian Clark

My parents tried their best to school me in the ways of the world, so when I started college, I figured I had enough cynicism to make it on my own.

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Mr. Almanza: You Missed Some Key Facts

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 06.17.2012 | Home
Read More: Food News, Usda, Food Safety Inspection Service, Food Politics, Food Health, Food Inspection, Chicken, Fsis, Chicken Inspection, Chicken Inspection Policy, Poultry Inspection, Home News
Wenonah Hauter

Food & Water Watch is not a "Johnny-come-lately" to the food safety program at the USDA. We are opposed to the proposed poultry inspection rule for several reasons.

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USDA Defends Contentious Poultry Inspection Proposal

Alfred V. Almanza | Posted 06.13.2012 | Home
Read More: Food Safety Inspection Service, Chicken, Food Inspection, Food Health, Food Safety, Usda, Fsis, Home News
Alfred V. Almanza

Over the last few weeks, there's been a lot of misinformation in the media about a proposal by USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) to modernize inspection at poultry slaughter plants. In fact, our plan will help prevent foodborne illnesses.

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175 Chickens in One Minute?!

Craig McCord | Posted 06.12.2012 | Green
Read More: Chicken Industry, Chicken, Agriculture, Poultry, Food Inspection, Usda, Petitions, Food Health, US Department of Agriculture, Green News
Craig McCord

Right now, the USDA inspectors inspect 35 chickens a minute for lovely things such as bile, feces and random spare parts that got through processing. That's a chicken every two seconds.

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