Thursday, April 29, 2010

Tainted Beef, Inadequate Government Monitoring

The federal agencies tasked with protecting consumers have failed:

A program set up to test beef for chemical residues "is not accomplishing its mission of monitoring the food supply for … dangerous substances, which has resulted in meat with these substances being distributed in commerce," says the audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Inspector General.

The health effects on people who eat such meat are a "growing concern," the audit adds.

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