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Bill Introduced to Improve Meat Traceback

Senator Jon Tester, D-Mont., has introduced a bill to improve meat traceback. The Meat Safety and Accountability Act would require USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service to design and implement an initiative to trace tainted meat back to the original source of contamination. Food safety experts have said the lack of a meaningful traceback requirement is a big flaw in the meat safety system.

R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard says new regulations of this type are long overdue. He says R-CALF believes it's critically important to the safety of U.S. beef consumers that regulators be forthcoming with information about a pathogen's origin.