Another Obama decision reversed? Now it’s about food safety.
Story Date: 10/18/2017

 

Source: Suzy Khimm, NBC NEWS, 10/16/17

Citing President Donald Trump's calls for deregulation, Republican lawmakers and the chicken industry are aggressively lobbying to speed up poultry inspection lines — a change the Obama administration had rejected after warnings it would endanger workers and increase food contamination.  The National Chicken Council has asked the USDA to allow poultry plants participating in a new inspection system to operate "at any line speed" they...

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