Tuesday, December 30, 2014

High standards leads to safer burgers


The United States Department of Agriculture sets food-safety standards for suppliers of ground beef for the National School Lunch Program.

Now a survey of food safety indicates that those suppliers are providing safer hamburger than other companies who are not participating.

The lesson seems to be that meat packers can meet higher food safety standards if they are being monitored for compliance and their sales depend on meeting standards.

The obvious question is why they serve up products that are not as safe as they could obviously make them.