XL Foods Inc. has made a number of promises to the Canadian
Food Inspection Agency to improve food safety at the beef-packing plant at
Brooks, Alta.
Under JBS USA management, employees will be under watch by a
spy camera.
The video camera recording is being done so “management will be notified of discrepancies in performance and
will be able to counsel the employee in one-on-one situation with video
evaluation results,” the owners, Brian and Lee Nilsson wrote to the Canadian
Food Inspection Agency.
The CFIA released the Oct. 18 letter today.
The company is also taking steps to make sure its hot-water
wash that is done before a dead animal is gutted is working properly.
That includes increased computerized monitoring of the
high-pressure hot-water wash.
The company promises to install a modified pre-evisceration
(i.e. pre-gutting) carcass wash cabinet by February.
And the brothers say “third-party experts” will re-design
the employee training program.
Amazing, isn't it, what happens when the pressure is on.
