In the past decade, more than two dozen Mississippi slaughterhouses and meat-poultry processing plants have violated federal laws intended to protect consumers, and several have done so repeatedly.
Some breached sanitation guidelines. Some violated food safety standards. Most had a combination of both.
The one with the highest number of violations responded by saying they take all rules and regulations seriously and, when infractions do occur, they work quickly to correct them.
The Clarion-Ledger analyzed 10 years of records from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service database of enforcement action against federally inspected facilities. Mississippi has 50 such facilities owned by 35 companies. Among them, they have racked up 69 violations resulting in 31 enforcement actions.
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