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Sunday, May 01, 2005
How yummy is Listeria?
The House Small Business Committee recently debated the White House’s hit list of regulatory protections to be weakened or eliminated. That hit list includes, among its many targets, the weakening or elimination of the USDA interim final rule to protect us against Listeria, even though many more ready-to-eat meat products continue to be recalled because of Listeria concerns:
Why is the Listeria rule on the hit list, given that the Bush administration already weakened the standard from a tougher standard proposed by the Clinton administration? The rash of recalls may well be evidence that the current standard is working as is and needs to be strengthened, if anything, but not weakened. The administration appears to be using the problems of the manufacturing sector and small business as an excuse to weaken our protections and aid its supporters in big corporations.
Posted by Robert Shull
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