date:Nov 07, 2012
clusive report Nov. 1, disclosed that FSIS has dramatically cut back on inspections of foreign meat systems that are suppose to be at equivalent levels to that of the U.S. before foreign counties are allow to export meat to the U.S.
The lapse in these periodic inspections is raising eyebrows among food safety advocates in the United States. However, it should be noted that a border inspection by FSIS was what revealed the E. coli problem in the Canadian XL Foods meat.
CFIA said that in additio