Millions of pounds of meat shipped at 6,500 facilities without proper inspections due to computer glitches

From the New York Times...

A troubled new computer system used by inspectors at the nation’s 6,500 meatpacking and processing plants shut down for two days this month, putting at risk millions of pounds of beef, poultry, pork and lamb that had left the plants before workers could collect samples to check for E. coli bacteria and other contaminants.

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