date:Jan 03, 2014
Meat industry trade publication Meatingplace is publishing an interview series with Brian Ronholm, new Acting Under Secretary of Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The interview focuses on the proposed poultry slaughter program known as HIMP, or HACCP-based Inspection Model Program.
Implementing HIMP would mean that chicken evisceration line speeds would increase from 140 birds per minute to 175, and some USDA inspectors would be moved off the inspection line to perform other du