That is like trying to entrap the company. That's bad faith and the USDA doesn't want to play that role - they now want to work with the company. More than 85 percent of inspectors responding to the survey said that company employees secretly ask them for help with problems in the plant, because they fear supervisor reprisals for speaking out against dirty conditions. Plant management appears aware of this secret reporting. Not surprisingly, inspectors say company monitoring cannot replace independent efforts.
Companies are in business to make money.
When you put them in charge of inspecting their own product, I think money becomes the determining factor. Instead, it ended up deregulating food inspection by shifting the responsibility of meat and poultry inspection to the industry. Slaughter and meat-processing lines are moving faster than ever, with as many as 400 cows an hour and over 200 birds per minute being killed. At the same time, inspectors' authority to remove feces and other contamination has been curtailed. It's The Jungle all over again.