date:Mar 23, 2017
Food Water Watch has written a letter to Acting Agriculture Secretary Michael Young, urging him to revoke the meat inspection equivalency determination for beef exported from Brazil. There have been recent revelations of massive corruption in the Brazilian meat inspection system, and chronic problems with past equivalency audits.
Equivalency determination means that the USDA considers the meat inspection system in another country to have the same standards as the U.S. system. China and the EU