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USDA plans to let chicken plants run faster with fewer inspectors
By Kim Geiger, Los Angeles Times
June 6, 2012, 5:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON ? As part of President Obama's push to streamline regulations on businesses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to let chicken slaughterhouses run production lines faster and with fewer federal inspectors, angering food safety advocates and poultry plant workers.
Under the proposal, production lines would be allowed to move 25% faster, while the government would cut by as much as 75% the number of line inspectors eyeing chicken bodies for defects before the carcasses are packaged for consumption...