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Just How Safe Is Our Meat?(meat product recalls)

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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 20080222
Author:Garber, Kent

Byline: Kent Garber

In The Jungle, his landmark expose of the meatpacking industry, Upton Sinclair described slaughterhouse conditions and meat contamination so horrific that the government stepped in and created a new agency to monitor the business: the Food and Drug Administration.

A century later, is a similar intervention in order? In the wake of the largest beef recall in U.S. history, at least two members of Congress, Iowa Sen. Dick Durbin and Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, both of whom sit on agricultural committees, say yes. They have called for a new department ...

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