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The Trump government reverses a proposal from the bidea era that would have obliged poultry companies to limit Salmonella in their products to prevent food poisoning.
Withdrawal of a central food safety plan from the bidea era
After the Ministry of Agriculture, according to its own statements, received 7,000 comments on the proposed regulation- including from interest groups such as the poultry and meat industry, MEP and a risk assessment company- Has the USDA the plan “to further evaluate his approach to combat salmonella diseases in connection with poultry products” withdrawn.
The aim of the bidet government: reduction of salmonella diseases by 25 %
According to one Announcement in the Federal Register The aim is to reduce salmonella diseases by 25 percent. This is by the fact that poultry companies that sell chicken or turkey products are obliged to keep the content of salmonella bacteria below a certain limit. And also to test six dangerous salmonella tribes. If the limit is exceeded or proof of one of the tribes, the poultry products would be pulled out of circulation and called back.
Every year there are over 1.3 million salmonella infections in the United States, the statement says, whereby this number has remained unchanged in the past two decades.
Reasons for the high number of salmonella infections in the USA
On Friday, food officers claimed that the proposed plan would “burden excessively” small poultry producers and processors. And they explained that the USDA would “check whether the current salmonella regulations should be updated”.
Influence of the poultry industry on political decisions
The inauguration committee of President Donald Trump received a record amount of cash. A significant part of it came from Pilgrim’s Pride. The poultry company was with 5 million dollars The biggest donor for Trump’s inauguration committee.
Two executives of the company – CEO Fabio Sandri and Kendra Waldbuser, head of the food safety department and quality assurance – are represented by many other managers on the board of the National Chicken Council. A lobby group who asked the USDA to withdraw the proposed plan. And also “to check alternative approaches to combat salmonella in raw poultry products”.
Cartel offenses and millions of millions in the poultry industry
Last year, the company agreed to pay a cartel penalty of $ 100 million. Because it had agreed with other food companies to keep chicken breeders underpaid.