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Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules (AP)

March 12th, 2010 Posted in business

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2008, file photo, a worker throws a piece of meat among cattle carcass scraps dropped into a truck at the Hallmark Meat Packing slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif.  In May 2008, the Agriculture Department banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand, since so-called 'downer' cows pose an increased risk for mad cow disease, E. coli and other infections. That change came in the wake of the nation's largest beef recall, after the Humane Society of the United States released another video in early 2008 showing the abuse of downers at Hallmark Meat Co. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should close before someone got sick, officials warned.


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