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.
