124—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 22,1979
USDA asks uniform schedules for meat poultry inspectors
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
uniform policy has been
proposed for providing in
spection service to the meat
and po y industry and for
setting the work schedules of
U.S. Department of
agriculture meat and
poultry inspectors, ac
cording to Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture
Carol Tucker Foreman.
Foreman said the
proposed amendments to the
meat and poultry inspection
regulations would provide
more efficient use of in
spection personnel and also
establish rules for deter-
USDA
on consumer dealings
WASHINGTON, D.C. - If
you’d like to have a say in
bow the U.S. Department of
Agriculture treats con
sumer’s interests, now’s
your chance.
More than 30 federal
departments and agencies
published proposed con
sumer programs December
10. These proposals spell out
how each agency wil work
with consumers in getting
the consumers’ point view on
agency programs,
providing information,
handling complaints, and
other problems that affect
U.S. citizens as consumers.
USDA’s office, according
to W. Neill Schaller, who is
special assistant to the
secretary for consumer
affairs, will oversee the
department’s consumer
outreach and provide for
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mining what constitutes
overtime and holiday in
spection services.
Under the proposal,
specific guidelines are
established for the depart
ment’s Food Safety and
Quality Service to determine
the assignment of inspectors
to meat and poultry plants.
The proposal also has
guidelines for charging
overtime inspection costs to
the industry.
The proposal calls for
plant operators to submit
changes in work schedules
so inspection personnel can
be assigned as efficiently as
wants feedback
consumer involvement
USDA’s programs.
“We’ll require that public
participation plans show
specific consumer in
volvement initiatives,”
Schaller said. “We’ll also
require that all agencies
follow USDA guidelines on
any action affecting con
sumers.”
Each agency of USDA will
have to monitor programs so
the magnitude of the impact
and particular segments of
the consumer public affected
are known, Schaller said.
“Consumer participation
will take place at all stages
of USDA rulemaking,”
Schaller said. “Consumer
involvement at the prenotice
stage, as well as during
comment periods on
proposed rules, will be built
into public participation
plans.”
USDA will publish a
manual early next year
telling consumers how to
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possible, n also aliutva small
plants which often work
on an intermittent basis to
meet their operating
schedule to that of available
inspection personnel to
minimize overtime costs.
Foreman said the present
regulations are vague and
thus difficult to uniformly
enforce. She said the
proposal will correct this
inequity and be in keeping
with the rule that the cost of
inspection, other than
overtime, is to be borne by
FSQS.
Inspectors performing
post-mortem inspection
duties would be limited to 10
participate in USDA actions,
SchaUersaid.
“Under the USDA
proposal,” he said, “the
office of consumer affairs
would work closely with the
departments decision
system and public par
ticipation staffs.
“We’ll also continue to
publish the USDA decision
calendar in the Federal
Register twice each year -
m November and May,” he
said.
USDA’s draft program
was published in the Dec. 10
Federal Register. Copies
may be obtained from:
Linley Juers, acting
associate directors, Office of
Budget Planning and
Evaluation, room 117-A,
USDA, Washington, D.C.,
20250.
Comments should be sent,
by March 10, to: Elizabeth
Webber, acting director,
public participation, OBPE,
room 117-A, USDA,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
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hours of duty daily, md all
other inspectors to Ihours.
Foreman said limiting work
hours would help prevent
inspector fatigue and assure
properly inspected products
for the consumer.
The proposed regulations
would apply to all meat and
poultry plants operating
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