[Vision2020] Yeah -- Self-Regulation Works So Well -- NOT!

[Saundra Lund]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/business/listeria-outbreak-traced-to-color
ado-cantaloupe-packing-shed.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
OR
http://tinyurl.com/3njbuyo

Listeria Outbreak Traced to Cantaloupe Packing Shed

"The farm had passed a food safety audit by an outside contractor just days
before the outbreak began. Eric Jensen, a member of the family that runs the
farm, said in an e-mail that the auditor had given the packing plant a score
of 96 points out of 100. . . 

The food industry increasingly has come to rely on what it calls third-party
audits of farms or processing plants to ensure the safety of food. But the
auditors are hired by the companies being inspected, and their procedures
are largely unregulated. In several recent food safety lapses, the
facilities involved had passed third-party audits."