Shipping continued after computer inspection system failed at meat plants
Story Date: 8/20/2013

 
Source: Ron Nixon, NY TIMES, 8/17/13

A troubled new computer system used by inspectors at the nation’s 6,500 meatpacking and processing plants shut down for two days this month, putting at risk millions of pounds of beef, poultry, pork and lamb that had left the plants before workers could collect samples to check for E. coli bacteria and other contaminants.

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