{"id":198613,"date":"2007-10-24T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/24\/topps-meat-plant-cut-inspections-before-reall\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T02:45:00","slug":"topps-meat-plant-cut-inspections-before-reall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/24\/topps-meat-plant-cut-inspections-before-reall\/","title":{"rendered":"Topps Meat Plant Cut Inspections Before Reall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it any surprise that under the Bush administration&#8217;s policies of &#8220;self regulation&#8221;, that companies would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21440906\/\">abandon health and safety inspections<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In the months before issuing a massive recall of its frozen hamburgers, Topps Meat Co. curtailed testing of ground beef and skipped other safeguards aimed at preventing contaminated meat from reaching consumers, according to a published report Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may be safer to buy your meat as steaks, and grind it at home&#8230;At least then, you can be reasonably certain that you are not getting cow anus in the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it any surprise that under the Bush administration&#8217;s policies of &#8220;self regulation&#8221;, that companies would abandon health and safety inspections? In the months before issuing a massive recall of its frozen hamburgers, Topps Meat Co. curtailed testing of ground beef and skipped other safeguards aimed at preventing contaminated meat from reaching consumers, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1012,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-food","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}