An anonymous USDA poultry inspector provides a statement about their experience working under the HIMP poultry inspection system. Key points include:
1) Under HIMP, USDA inspectors act as monitors rather than directly inspecting carcasses themselves, allowing plant employees to conduct sorting instead of USDA personnel.
2) Production line speeds under HIMP are much faster, making thorough inspection difficult. Contaminated or defective carcasses are still processed.
3) Inspectors have limited ability to remove contaminated or defective birds from the line or enforce standards, compromising food safety.
4) Staffing shortages limit inspection duties, increasing risks of contamination or defects being missed
In this article it has been described :
Identify the threats to our poultry and how disease agents
might enter a poultry farm
Identify the costs of diseases and their prevention
Define the three principles of biosecurity:
Segregation & Traffic control
Cleaning
Disinfection
Identify biosecurity risks present in a poultry farm
Bio-Security plan is a set of practices designed to prevent the entry and spread of infectious diseases into and from a poultry farm.
Biosecurity requires the adoption of a set of attitudes and behaviours by people, to reduce risk in all activities involving poultry production and marketing.
A good poultry health management is an important component of poultry production. Infectious disease causing agents will spread through a flock very quickly because of the high stocking densities of commercially housed poultry.
For poultry health management to be effective a primary aim must be to prevent the onset of disease or parasites, to recognize at an early stage the presence of disease or parasites, and to treat all flocks that are diseased or infested with parasites as soon as possible and before they develop into a serious condition or spread to other flocks. To be able to do this it is necessary to know how to recognize that the birds are diseased, the action required for preventing or minimising disease and how to monitor for signs that the prevention program is working.
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In this article it has been described :
Identify the threats to our poultry and how disease agents
might enter a poultry farm
Identify the costs of diseases and their prevention
Define the three principles of biosecurity:
Segregation & Traffic control
Cleaning
Disinfection
Identify biosecurity risks present in a poultry farm
Bio-Security plan is a set of practices designed to prevent the entry and spread of infectious diseases into and from a poultry farm.
Biosecurity requires the adoption of a set of attitudes and behaviours by people, to reduce risk in all activities involving poultry production and marketing.
A good poultry health management is an important component of poultry production. Infectious disease causing agents will spread through a flock very quickly because of the high stocking densities of commercially housed poultry.
For poultry health management to be effective a primary aim must be to prevent the onset of disease or parasites, to recognize at an early stage the presence of disease or parasites, and to treat all flocks that are diseased or infested with parasites as soon as possible and before they develop into a serious condition or spread to other flocks. To be able to do this it is necessary to know how to recognize that the birds are diseased, the action required for preventing or minimising disease and how to monitor for signs that the prevention program is working.
Dr. Matt Anderson - Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virusJohn Blue
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More presentations at http://www.swinecast.com/2015-iowa-pork-congress
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HIMP Affidavit #6
1. DECLARATION
My name is (REDACTED) and I am an employee of the United States Department of
Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS). I am submitting this statement to the
Government Accountability Project. I am doing so without any threats, inducements or coercion. I
authorize the publication of this statement contingent upon the redaction of my name, and the name
and specific location of the federal establishments to which I refer. I am making this statement
because I believe that the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s plan to implement a new poultry
inspection system based on the HIMP piloted system is a very serious mistake. The proposed
“Modernization of Poultry Inspection” rule is not consumer oriented and if most consumers knew
about how HIMP functions, they would not want it implemented either. As an inspector in a HIMP
plant, I know the kinds of unwholesome, mutilated, and diseased chickens that are processed and
shipped out for sale and I feel it is important to share this information with consumers and taxpayers.
I have worked as a poultry inspector for over 15 years, including many years under the
piloted HIMP inspection system. Under the HIMP piloted system, many inspection duties previously
carried out by USDA inspectors are handled by plant employees. Under HIMP, USDA inspectors
who are extensively trained in the disposition of poultry disease and adulteration are explicitly
instructed to be “hands off” and to “monitor” the plant’s activities instead. In my experience, this is
tantamount to having the wolves watch the proverbial henhouse, but these chickens are real and
they could very likely hurt or kill someone.
Under traditional inspection, two, three, or four inspectors on each production line inspect
and observe the carcasses and look for signs of disease or adulteration and then they have trimmers
remove any suspicious-looking carcasses. The birds go down the production line at 35 birds per
minute and inspectors can view every angle, including the inside and viscera, of the birds. However,
in a HIMP plant, one inspector is stationed at the end of the each production line during Carcass
Inspection (CI) duty with the carcasses flying by at between 165-175 birds per minute and plant
employees known as “sorters” must pull off suspicious-looking birds. We cannot stop the line if we
are concerned and have been admonished by our supervisors if we do. If sorters find a carcass that
2. doesn’t look right, they have to hang it back and cannot do anything with it until their supervisor
approves. By contrast, in a traditional plant, USDA inspectors have the ability to have birds that
appear as though they may pose a threat to consumers removed from the line. Additionally, in most
plants the evisceration line is constructed so that USDA inspectors cannot see inside the carcasses
or the entire front of the birds (where breast blisters and tumors can develop) and possibly have
fecal matter on them. This is a huge concern because fecal matter, for which FSIS has a zero
tolerance policy, and can lead to salmonella, campylobacter, or e-coli contamination, is often found
inside of the bird carcasses. The ability to write NRs is a crucial enforcement mechanism because
there is an official record of a plant’s non-compliance with applicable standards and the plant must
take immediate corrective action. However, at carcass inspection we do not have the ability to write
NRs for fecal contamination. The plant has Critical Control Points (CCPs) along the evisceration line
where they must administer tests for food safety issues. We can only write NRs for fecal
contamination at verification inspection (when we pull 10 bird samples from the line every hour),
even though we know it is likely that contaminated birds head into the chiller at carcass inspection
because we cannot see the inside or front parts of the birds. The chiller is a cold water bath that is
supposed to lower the temperature of the carcasses before being cut into pieces and shipped out to
consumers. After the chiller station, there is no USDA procedure to inspect those carcasses.
Allowing those birds to go into the chiller caked in fecal matter makes about as much sense as being
covered in dirt and taking a mud bath. Consumers wouldn’t like it and I wouldn’t eat it.
When we are on CI duty, it is difficult to determine the wholesomeness of birds because they
are going by so fast and and even if we could see every bird at that speed and we detect problems ,
we are not permitted to stop the line. These characteristics include Other Consumer Protection
defects (OCPs). OCPs include things like ingesta, crops, excessive feathers, tumors, bruises,
blisters, and other items found on carcasses. When I am at a CI station, I can observe the final trim
station where plant employees known as “trimmers” are supposed to look for OCP characteristics
and trim them off the birds. There is no way that these employees can catch all of the birds with
OCPs when the production line is going that fast. OCPs are not considered a food safety issue by
3. the Agency, but I have seen bruises that exhibit signs of advanced bacterial development. For
example, bruises often ooze slime when the trimmers cut them off. I have seen bruises that, when
cut off, ooze red, green, brown, and, when very old, black slime. These carcasses move swiftly down
the production line into the chiller and out to various major wholesalers that stake their reputations
on good and wholesome quality products.
We rotate between various inspection duties including: carcass, sanitation, pre-op,
production, and verification inspections. During verification inspection or VI, we randomly pull eight,
ten bird samples out of the thousands from the production line and test for food safety and OCP
issues. At verification inspection, we can write NRs for food safety issues like fecal contamination
and we often find many more birds with fecal contamination at VI than at CI. We find many OCP
issues but cannot write NRs for these findings unless the plant exceeds its allowable limit or
“performance standard” for a specific OCP in a 25-day period. For example, we would not be able to
write an NR for blisters unless 52.5% of the birds during VI had blisters for seven days within a 25-
day period. We find other OCP issues like feathers or other unidentified matter and we cannot force
the plant to take action until their process is out of control. This seems counterintuitive because
many OCP problems are caused by faulty or defective machinery, such as a broken scalding or
cropping machine, along the evisceration line that might cause mutilation of the carcasses which
could be easily prevented if the plant was forced to take corrective action early in the process.
The agency has been short-staffed for many years at various plants and there have been
times we have had to delay certain inspection duties until late into the shift, the next shift or even the
following day. I have heard of other plants so short-staffed that they cannot complete sanitation
inspection. This is a concern because, depending on the plant’s commitment to sanitation, mold,
debris from the slaughter process, or even rodent issues may be present. On many occasions, we
have had to monitor production either late in shift or until the next shift arrives. This worries me
greatly because much of the cutting is done on the production-side the plant. When we are present,
we have seen many plant employees accidentally drop product and utensils like knives and scissors
4. on the floor and neglect to sanitize the equipment or rinse the meat before it is returned to the
production line.
It is my experience that plants are mostly concerned with production and the maintenance of
the production line at high speeds. They are not stewards of the public interest and their goals differ
from the Food Safety Inspection Service and the USDA. I have yet to see a plant properly train their
employees in poultry sorting, and I have seen plant leadership fire those who bring food safety or
quality assurance issues to their attention. The Poultry Inspection Act states that each carcass
should be inspected by a trained USDA inspector and yet in HIMP plants carcasses are sorted by
poorly trained plant employees. The piloting of the HIMP system was useful in that it made it very
clear that plants do not care about protecting consumers and should not be trusted to come up with
their own inspection plans.
I, (REDACTED), have reviewed this statement of 4 pages and hereby declare under penalty of
perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Dated this 16
day of May, 2012.
(Signature)