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Is there a relationship between grading and inspection?
NO!
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Which is voluntary and which is mandatory between Meat grading and Meat inspection?
Grading is voluntary and Inspection is mandatory
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What are 3 reasons for meat inspection?
- Failure of europeans to recognize our meat inspections laws of the 1800's
- Roosevelt's investigation of chicago meat packers (1904-06)
- Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" 1906
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When was the meat inspection Act passed?
June 30, 1906
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What are the different ways meat inspectors identify meat as?
Healthy, Sound, Wholesome, and Properl Labeled
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When meat inspectors identify meat as sound, what are they refering to?
The plant being clean and sanitary.
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What is the FSIS
Food safety and inspection service
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What are the functions of meat inspection
- Detection and destruction of diseased and contaminated meat
- Assurance of clean and sanitary handling and preparation
- Minimization of microbiological contamination of meat
- Prevention of adulteration and the presence of chemical or drug residues
- Prevention of false labeling
- Application of the inspection stamp
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What determines if meat is inspected by federal gov or state
Where the products are going to be sold
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Is meat is inspected by federal goverment where can it be sold?
Interstate or foreign commerce
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When was the wholesome Meat Act passed?
1967
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What is the wholesome meat act?
- "equal to law"
- states have to have inspection law that are equal to those of the federal gov.
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What is the Texas Meat and Poultry Inspecton Act?
Texas meat inspection which is located in Austin.
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What is the Talmadge-Aiken Agreement?
these are federally inspected but staffed by state employees
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What are the two exemptions from federal or state meat inspection?
Curtis Amendment and Farmers Exemption
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What is the curtis amendment?
custom slaughteres-cutters-processors of: farm animals for famers and game animals for hunters.
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What is the farmers exemption
When meat is to be used by the farmer for his own use, for his family and for nonpaying guests.
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What are the area of responsibility for meat inspection?
- Facilities construction and operalion sanitation
- Antemortem inspection
- Postmortem
- Product inspection
- Laboratory determinations and assays
- control and restriction of condemned products
- marking, labeling and application of inspection insignia
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How must plants be constructed to pass inspection?
- Clean( and be able to be cleaned)
- they can not contribute to hazards in meat
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What goes into antemortem inspection?
Look at animals before slaughter, inspected in the pen, on the premises, on the day of slaughter, in motion and at rest
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What are reasons for antemortem U.S. Suspect
seriously crippled, reactors to T.B. test, immature animals, minor epithelioma of the eye or of the orbital region
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What are reasons for antemortem U.S condemned?
"downers", deads, abuot to die, comatose, temp above105 (106 swine), dies in pen, or obvious symptoms of disease.
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What is FSIS 5-04 Notice?
All cattle that are non-ambulatory and/or showing central nervous system symptoms are condemned
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What caused FSIS 5-04 noctice?
BSE "mad cow"
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What is number one reason steers are condemned antemortem?
Dead
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What is number one reason heifers are condemned antemortem?
Dead
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What is number one reason cows are condemned antemortem?
deads
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What is number one reason barros and gilts are condemned antemortem?
deads
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What is number one reason sows are condemned antemortem?
deads
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What is number one reason lambs and yearlings are condemned antemortem?
dead
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What is number one reason sheep are condemned antemortem?
dead
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