Good Afternoon List Friends,
Here is a link to an article in the on-line Meat Industry newsletter
"MeatNews.com" It tells of the "Best Practices" initiatives being
adopted by some meat processors in the US to address consumers'
increasing emphasis on food safety issues.
http://www.meatnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Article
&artNum=6055
A couple of quotes:
"These industry leaders: American Foodservice, Excel, Jack in the Box,
Bar-S, and Costco, among a small handful of other firms; are using
existing regulations not as a finish line to be brought in a little
closer, but as the starting line. Best-practices begin where federal
regulations end"
And comments from a consumer representative after a tour of a Texas
American Foodservice plant.
"However, to date the best result of the best-practices dialogue has
been a hard-won nascent trust of these progressive industry leaders by
some of the industry's sharpest critics in the consumer community. `I
think what we saw at Texas American Foodservice is pretty much the way
that plant truly operates,' Caroline Smith DeWaal of CSPI [Centre for
Science in the Public Interest] told me. `I don't think they scrubbed up
the plant especially for us. It's really an impressive operation. But
what impressed me the most is that these leaders are not afraid of the
future. They don't have any fear that their food-safety systems can meet
anything that comes down the line'."
I thought readers with an interest in food safety issues would be
interested.
Regards
Ross Gould, P.Ag.
Calgary, Alberta
