Private inspections of food companies seen as weak »
Posted By STONERS 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsThe mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry.
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STONERS7 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Lawmakers said the food industry's private inspection system failed to catch filthy conditions because the company itself hired the inspectors."
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"There is an obvious and inherent conflict of interest when an auditor works for the same supplier it is evaluating."-
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memestryker7 months, 3 weeks ago
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I remember when I was working in a bureaucracy during the rollout of the "self-assessment" craze. Suddenly we were just answering surveys, and if anyone said anything other than the party line, they were singled out as if *their* program was having problems--not that the system was broken. So everyone checked off that everything was just wonderful in their programs, once they realized what the outcome would be for honesty.
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Self-assessment turned out to be the witch-hunt it was designed to avoid.
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getreal17 months, 2 weeks ago
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Their own private inspection. During my years of 16 to 28 every food store that I worked with was always in fear of the inspector. That inspector could make or break you. When I went back in to the food chain work I kept wondering where the inspectors had disappeared to. The store chain that I work for here recently is all of a sudden worried about bent cans. They use to look at me as if I was stupid for taking the bent cans off the shelf. If I made a statement that the state inspector could show up and fine them, they would laugh about it. You can't expect any company to police itself.
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