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New measures to improve
meat safety announced
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a series of
recalls of contaminated meat this summer, federal
food regulators plan to target all meat packers for
random E. coli testing, reversing a policy that had
exempted some processors from such tests.
“Strengthening food safety programs that pro
tect consumers from foodbome hazards continues
to be a top priority at USDA,” Agriculture
Secretary Ann Veneman said in announcing the
policy Tuesday. It is to take effect in a few weeks.
The announcement came just
days after a congressional audit
found that the public is vulnerable
to sickness from tainted meat
because the department’s Food
and Safety Inspection Service
isn’t supervising slaughterhouses
closely enough.
The department also has been
criticized by some congressional
members for failing to recall
quickly 19 million pounds of
ConAgra Beef Co. hamburger
meat this summer, the second
largest recall in U.S. history.
The tainted meat sickened 17
people in Colorado.
A 1998 directive had permit-
ted some plants to test for E. coli without over
sight. But scientific data shows that harmful E.
coli bacteria has become more prevalent, prompt
ing the department to toughen inspections and
rules, said Elsa Murano, undersecretary for the
USDA Food and Safety Inspection Service.
“These action steps move beyond detection of
this hazard and on to preventing it,” she said in a
written statement.
E. coli, bacteria found in animal manure, can
be carried on cattle hauled to plants for slaughter.
People who eat meat contaminated with the bacte-
u
Strengthening food
safety programs that
protect consumers
from foodbome
hazards continues
to be a top priority
atUSADA.
— Ann Veneman
agriculture secretary
na can become very ill and even die.
To help prevent outbreaks, the Agriculture
Deparunent also is requiring processors and grind
ing plants to ensure that they have a plan tor elim
inating or reducing E. coli.
Consumer groups said the new rules were
necessary.
After a summer of recalls. “1 SDA needed to
take action, and 1 think the GAO report was just
confirming what we already knew, which is the
program needed to be improved
to protect public health.” said
Caroline Smith DeWaal. director
of food safety for the Center for
Science in the Public Interest.
The Consumer Federation of
America also supported the move
but wanted the agency to do
more. The federation’s
spokesman. Art Jaeger, said the
Agriculture Department also
needs to increase the number of
random tests it conducts in all
packing plants.
The meat industry is unhappy
with the new restrictions.
Plants already have several
methods to detect meat contami
nation. said J. Patrick Boyle, president of the
American Meat Institute, which represents meat
processors.
The Agriculture Department is taking a zero-
tolerance approach to E. coli and could close
plants where E. coli is detected, which could put
some packers out of business. Boyle said.
“The meat industry knows ... that no policy
short of cooking — can guarantee that E. coli
0I57:H7 is eliminated from ground beef in every
instance.’ Boyle said. “It’s not a fact we try to
hide.”
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is different, but most art
tor potential employee,
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ties and job expenence
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bit of everything becau*.
size.” said Elizabeth G
\\ al- Mart recruiter.
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this year’s fair. Reeruii
interest in working for
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dramatically since the j,
terrorist attacks.
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recruiter said. "So the ooro in the
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increased The agency tf 1978. as
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cent after Sept. 11 iwa> game
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will be forthcoming.
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Aggies score.
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cannon and that the ‘
prepared by expert'
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aids posed by tiring
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dents hope
Babers
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disappointed with Ac
tion of our offense,
stated in the release.”*
ful that these changes
us move the offense u>
positive direction. ,
Kevin Sumlin. who#
over offensive coaching
joined the Aggie* cC >a®
in 2001 as assistant heat
and w ide receivers coa®
Sumlin served tort ^
as wide receivers
Purdue and coa( ~T.
receivers and quarterback
University of Min neS0
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they’re struggling a 1
said freshman satety
Appel. “They want ^ .
and make the team j
Both Sumlin ana
declined to comment,
Rosa Parks' bus among new
heritage grant recipients
WASHINGTON (AP) - Boston's Old North
Church, where the light shone that started
Paul Revere's ride, and the bus in which Rosa
Parks helped start the civil rights movement
will share in grants announced Tuesday by
the "Save America's Treasures" program.
The program, sponsored by the President's
NEWS IN BRIEF
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities,
will distribute Si 5.6 million this year to 80
projects in 36 states, the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico. Since it started in 1999, it
has spent Si24.9 million in all 50 states,
Puerto Rico and on Midway Island.
Grants are limited to Si million and must
be matched dollar for dollar by recipients.
The Old North Church - "one if by land
and two if by sea" - will get S317,000 to
renew its windows.
Rosa Lee Parks is the black w
refused to give up her seat to a
senger in a Montgomery, Ala.,
Martin Luther King led a successn j t | ie nic
the city's bus system foUovyed, ana
ment that led to major civil ri 8 hts H g n( « fi
decade later was born. The
Museum and Greenfield Village 1 ^
Mich., will get S205,000 to restor <
The New York City Ballet was
George Balanchine
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