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Bipartisan group of senators call for release of poultry inspection rule

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of 13 U.S. senators has sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture  Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to move forward with a proposal to modernize the department's poultry inspection system.

The voluntary change would allow plant employees to check carcasses for defects and perform other quality-assurance tasks not related to food safety. That would free up some federal inspectors to focus more on food safety-related tasks, such as oversight and verification, microbiological testing for pathogens, sanitation standards and antimicrobial controls in the plant.

Signing the letter were Senators Roy Blunt. . .

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