August 18, 2005
Contact: Patty Lovera, (202) 454-5132
Tony Corbo, (202) 454-5131
Erica Hartman, (202) 454-5174
The following analysis is a result of a December 2004 Freedom of
Information Act request from Public Citizen to the USDA for all
noncompliance records (NRS) related to BSE. Public Citizen received the
documents on Aug. 15, 2005.
We filed this FOIA in December because of concerns voiced by Stan
Painter, chairman of the meat inspectors union. To read our letter about
the concerns, go to
http://www.citizen.org/documents/PiersonLetter12-20-04.pdf.
In response to Stan Painter's letter, the USDA's FSIS office opened a
misconduct investigation on him. The investigation was closed yesterday,
Aug. 17.
Please click on the link below for Public Citizen's analysis of these N Rs?.
http://www.citizen.org/documents/BSENRanalysis.pdf
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Public Citizen is a national consumer advocacy organization based in
Washington, D.C, with 150,000 members. For more information, go to
www.citizen.org.
