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16 Nov 98 The Associated Press
National Association of Federal Veterinarians
1101 Vermont Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20005-6308
Office: 202-289-6334

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Some veterinarians in charge of federal meat inspections say the Department of Agriculture has pressured them to certify products that don't meet export requirements, according to a newspaper report.
In two letters sent to USDA Secretary Dan Glickman by the National Association of Federal Veterinarians, the group said a veterinarian "was disciplined and forced to retire" for refusing to certify cattle as being from disease-free areas, the Des Moines Sunday Register said. Other veterinarians risk discipline for refusing to sign "even the most outrageous and obvious false statements," said William Hughes, a lawyer for the group.

In its correspondence to Glickman, the association contends "there has been a longstanding practice of (the USDA) requiring the signing of veterinary export certificates prior to the product even being produced."

A phone message left at the home of Glickman's spokesman, Tom Amontree, was not returned Sunday. But Linda Swacina of the USDA's inspection service said the agency is developing a reply to the association and is reviewing its "whole expert certification policy."

Many foreign governments require assurances that U.S. livestock meat be disease-free, and the possibility of false export certificates could severely hurt the multibillion-dollar industry that has battled for access. Many countries are prone to refusing American exports in order to protect their own producers.

USDA defends exports after foreign inspectors find bad meat

The Associated Press November 20, 1998
The Agriculture Department is defending the country's meat exports after foreign inspectors found sanitation violations at some U.S. meat processing plants. "Several problems were noticed but they were immediately corrected," said Linda Swacina, spokeswoman for the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service. "No contaminated or adulterated products left any of these plants." But the violations, found by foreign inspectors during recent routine visits to U.S. plants, have raised concerns for consumers abroad and at home.
Mark T. Mina, deputy administrator of FSIS, detailed violations of poor handling, bad hygiene and improper sterilization in an internal department memo. The Des Moines Register reported on the memo Thursday. In that memo, Mina charges that some unidentified plants are operating with serious deviations from U.S. standards as well as those of the importing country.

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from ~~~Prions , Pigs, and Poultry. www.mad-cow.org


據報導，獸醫報告說，美國農業部的壓力，強迫偽造記錄，

98 11月16日美聯社
聯邦獸醫協會
1101佛蒙特街淨重，710套房
華盛頓，直流20005-6308
辦公室：202-289-6334

根據報紙報導 Des Moines，衣阿華 - 聯邦肉類檢驗費一些獸醫說，農業部施壓，以證明不符合出口要求產品符合出口要求。