For the first time, federal officials are disclosing measures they’ve taken to improve meat safety inspections after the massive recall at Petaluma’s Rancho Feeding Corp. last year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top food safety official says the agency is hiring 32 new full-time inspectors to keep tabs on meat-processing plants across the country after the recall.
Prompted by the Rancho case, USDA inspectors now keep tabs on meat processing in several parts of slaughterhouse facilities and oversee operations more often, said Alfred Almanza, the agency’s deputy undersecretary for the Office of Food Safety.
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