A federal appeals court in Colorado last week vacated a temporary ban on U.S. Department of Agriculture
inspections at slaughterhouse facilities, ruling against animal protection groups seeking to block Valley Meat and other aspiring horse slaughter facilities from opening.
Not exact matches
The confusion around what exactly happened
at the XL Foods meat packing plant in Brooks, the slow reaction of the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency to the E.coli outbreak, and the late reaction of the
slaughterhouse owners will certainly be an issue the opposition will use to tackle the government during the fall sitting.
Meat already has two federal
inspections - the
slaughterhouse and
at the processing plant - before it is sprinkled on a pizza, the industry says.
It also outlined sanitary conditions
at slaughterhouses and meat packing facilities and enforced new regulations with regular monitoring and
inspections of meat.