Feds Support Mandatory Fees to Improve U.S. Food Safety

June 4, 2009

  • June 5, 2009 at 9:27 am
    Nugget says:
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    Good initial idea that they then implement poorly-

    While increasing the number of inspections and asking the industry to foot some of the bill seems fair- a flat fee structure without a direct correlation between the fee and the inspection is bad implementation. Every facility is going to be different and require a different amount of time/effort to inspect, the fee structure should reflect that and the money collected should remain in the food safety inspections department budget only. This would also create a system that includes incentives to get off the high risk list- if you are paying for every inspection, you’ll probably want to do better so you get inspected less (in addition to avoiding fines for failing).

    This administration comes up with ideas and then never develops them beyond a simplistic and inefficient implementation.
    For example, universal healthcare access = great idea never goes beyond government as single-payer system = bad implementation.

  • June 5, 2009 at 11:20 am
    Dread says:
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    No more money is needed. People simply need to accept responsibility and do the damn job their paid to do. Most, if not all of the problems are caused by human failure. They already have inspectors. I can support hefty fines for non-compliance but no more layers of incompetence.



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