Source: Chuck Jolley, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 1/10/20


The Hill, a Washington-based news publication, recently published a story about the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System (NSIS), an outgrowth of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) HACCP-Based Inspection Model Project (HIMP) with these warnings: “A new rule . . . would reduce the number of government food safety inspectors in pork plants by 40 percent and remove most of the remaining inspectors. In their place, a smaller number of company employees — who are not required to receive any training — would conduct the 'sorting’ tasks. "

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