date:Nov 01, 2012
Sending U.S. Department of Agriculture officials overseas to inspect meat and poultry plants whose products are destined for American consumers has long been a bedrock of our modern import safety system, but an investigation by Food Safety News found, the number of countries audited by U.S. officials each year has declined by more than 60 percent since 2008.
The USDAs Food Safety and Inspection Service has also become less transparent. The agency has failed to make audit reports public in a tim