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A Food Safety and Inspection Service report charging that
Canadian export plants were deficient in food safety procedures
was stalled in 2003 by then-Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman
to allow time for procedures to be harmonized, but follow-up
visits by FSIS in mid-2005 found that some Canadian plants
had failed to make recommended changes, according to an
internal report obtained by the Associated Press .
Specifically, FSIS charges that these plants didn't test
ready-to-eat products for listeria, sanitation controls
were inadequate and inspections were not conducted on a
daily basis.
Canadian authorities said that daily inspections have been
conducted since the 2005 audit, and American inspectors
have doubled their own listeria inspections. Several plants
have had their export licenses suspended, as well. |
