Meat inspection
Food safety measure
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Meat inspection is a crucial part of food safety measures and encompasses all measures directed towards the prevention of raw and processed meat spoilage. It was first recorded in the Mosaic law of the Hewbrew Bible.[1]
In the United States, Federal enforcemnt of meat inspection began in 1891, and where subsecuently inproved by Federal Meat Inspection Act (1906) and Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)—both partly a response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle—then later Wholesome Meat Act (1967), and the Wholesome Poultry Products Act (1968).[1][2]
Scientific counsel is provided by institutions like the American Meat Science Association and similar.
