Food Safety News Sun 3/1/2020

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Food Safety News
Sun 3/1/2020 4:01 AM

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Letter From The Editor: Brashears confirmation vote long overdue By Dan Flynn on Mar 01, 2020 12:05 am USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is getting a new top administrative officer. Paul Kiecker, who joined the agency in 1988 as a food inspector, is succeeding Carmen Rottenberg as FSIS Administrator. Kiecker, who’s been deputy administrator since 2018, is the rare civil servant who moves from an entry-level position to the top job... Continue Reading UK public concerned about lower meat standards in future trade deals By News Desk on Mar 01, 2020 12:03 am More than four fifths of people are concerned about laws on meat quality standards being relaxed so trade deals can be secured with the United States and other countries, according to Unison, a union in the United Kingdom. Unison commissioned a survey amid reports about imports of chicken washed in chlorine or lactic acid as... Continue Reading

 

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The UK doesn't want to trade with us.... The US......

Dave Prentis, Unison general secretary, said public safety and confidence in food is at stake when discussing trade deals.
“Cozying up to the U.S. president shouldn’t mean dropping standards by accepting meat with poor hygiene, which has been given a blast of bleach or acid to gloss over its murky past,” he said.
“The best way to ensure what we consume is fit for purpose is to have independent inspections. We shouldn’t be putting checks in the hands of the meat producers themselves. Brexit should mean the U.K.’s current high standards are maintained or improved – not the introduction of bargain-basement, third-rate standards.”

I'm guessing socialist governments should put "food safety cooks" in every household kitchen..