"We urge the Senate to recognize that independent U.S. farmers and ranchers deserve no less from Congress than to be presumed careful, conscientious, and law abiding food producers " a reputation earned by them while feeding this great nation during the past two centuries, he emphasized. "R-CALF looks forward to working with Congress to make improvements to food safety in the U.S. that will not penalize independent producers, but instead will correct our food safety problems at their primary source " in under-inspected food packing and food processing facilities located in foreign countries and in the United States.
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[1] HACCP is the acronym for Hazard and Analysis Critical Control Points, which replaced direct government inspection with, essentially, an honor system that relies on food processing facilities to police themselves.
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