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WASHINGTON — The
eagan administration is prop-
sing changes in meat and poul-
;ry inspection laws to permit the
griculture Department to re-
uce federal inspectors’ visits to
ell-run meat processing plants.
Officials said they could im-
rove productivity, redirect in-
pection efforts at problem
lants where they are needed
ost and save money if Con-
ress agrees to give the agricul-
ure secretary discretion to de-
:ide the intensity and frequency
f inspections.
The legislation was sent this
eek to Capitol Hill, where con-
ressional hearings are ex
erted to be held.
The change would not apply
:o slaughter plants, where each
nimal will continue to be in-
ipected by federal employees.
It would apply to inspections
f processing of meat and poul-
ry — previously inspected at
laughter — into a variety of
Jbods, such as sausages, lun-
heon meats, frozen dinners
and soups.
The law now states that each
meat processing operation must
be visited at least once a day. The
proposed change would permit
inspections once or twice a week
if officials believed a plant pre
sented no problems.
Under federal inspection are
551 meat and poultry slaughter
plants, 5,382 processing plants
and 1,788 plants that combine
slaughter and processing.
Donald Houston, administra
tor of the department’s Food
Safety and Inspection Service,
told reporters this week that the
prime goal of the legislative
proposal is efficiency, but also
there would be about $2 million
in initial savings from the $82
million cost to inspect proces
sing.
The department spends
another $178 million to inspect
slaughter of meat and poultry.
Under the proposal, the fre
quency of inspection visits at a
processing plant would be deter
mined by a set of criteria. One
would be the nature and fre
quency of a plant’s operations.
For example, Houston said,
formulating cooked sausage, a
high-risk operation in terms of
food safety, should be inspected
more closely than a low-risk
operation of cutting steaks.
“Inspectors in processing
plants are not there 100 percent
of the time, and they never have
been,” Houston said.
Another factor would be the
plant’s history of compliance
with inspection requirements.
“We know that certain parts
of this industry we have to reg
ulate very closely,” Houston
said.
A third factor would be the
sophistication of a plant’s own
systems to monitor product
quality.
That factor ties the proposal
to an existing Agriculture De
partment voluntary quality con
trol program, which permits
federal inspectors in cooperat
ing plants to use the plant’s own
quality control data to make in
spection decisions.
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United Pre*i International
| LAWRENCE, Kan. — Robert
MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, editors
and co-anchors of public televi-
pon’s “The MacNeil-Lehrer Re-
iort,” were presented the 1982
/illiam Allen White Founda-
lon Award for Journalistic
lerit.
Wednesday’s announcement
arked the first time in the
[ward’s 33-year history it was
ared by two journalists. The
[ward is given to journalists who
txemplify the late Emporia
azette editor in “service to his
rofession and his country.”
The public affairs program
as been aired nightly during
e week by the Public Broad
sting Service since October
975, focusing on a single issue
ibr each half-hour show.
MacNeil, a Canadian citizen,
nd Lehrer, a native of Wichita,
lan., and a graduate of the Uni-
ersity of Missouri, first teamed
n public television’s Emmy
Ward-winning live coverage of
he Senate Watergate hearings.
MacNeil began his news
areer in Canada, working for
wo commercial radio stations
nd the Canadian Broadcasting
lo. He moved to England in
955 as an aspiring playwright,
but later returned to journalism
f^ith Reuters News Service.
He joined NBC News as a
ondon correspondent and co-
f ered the Algerian civil war, the
ighting in the Belgian Congo
md the conflict over the con
duction of the Berlin Wall. He
ipent four years in NBC’s
Washington bureau and worked
' a year for the British Broadcast
ing Co. before he joined the
Public Broadcasting Laboratory
in 1968.
As senior correspondent for
f )ublic television’s National Pub
ic Affairs Center for Television,
MacNeil moderated “Washing
ton Week in Review” from 1971
to 1973 and co-anchored re
ports of the 1972 presidential
elections with Sander Vanocui.
He covered impeachment pro
ceedings and the resignation of
former President Richard Nix
on for the BBC.
Lehrer’s first public affairs re
porting experience was in the
print field as a reporter, political
writer and columnist in Dallas.
In 1968, he became city editor of
the Dallas Times-Herald, then
broke into television with Dallas’
public television station where
he was executive director of
public affairs, on-air host and
editor of the local nightly news
program “Newsroom.”
He also lias been public
affairs coordinator for PBS-
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