In December, USA Today ran a groundbreaking series of articles documenting the inexcusable food safety gap between the USDA’s national school lunch program and several top fast food restaurants.
It appears that this publicity has led to some important changes. The USDA has just announced it’s going to tighten its purchasing standards, so that they’ll be comparable to McDonald’s, Jack-in-the-Box, and other top fast food outlets.
Four USA Today reporters—Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison, Anthony DeBarros, and Elizabeth Weise—deserve the credit for exposing the USDA’s lapses, thereby provoking the public outcry that led to this week’s announcement.
The meat industry’s not going to like the fact that one of its top customers will no longer be so easy to please. Link.
