11.   The Government Accountability Project, a private lobby group that represents whistle-blowing federal meat inspectors, likes it even less.

12.   The new secretary swiftly flew West, pledged to hire many new meat inspectors and promised to reform inspection.

13.   The problem was, the meat in the dump was crawling with tuberculosis germs, thanks to a scam run by a Kenyan meat inspector and the lodge operator.

14.   The program relies on meat inspectors employed by private companies, which helps cut costs.

15.   The U.S. Agriculture Department withdrew meat inspectors from the Norfolk facility after citing sanitation and contamination violations.

16.   The U.S. Agriculture Department ordered federal meat inspectors to boost surveillance after a study found spinal cord fragments in samples of beef.

17.   Until now, its meat inspectors have checked meat only by touch, sight and smell.

18.   Weingarten and Espy asserted that the secretary of agriculture should be held to a different legal and ethical standard than meat inspectors.

19.   A California sausage factory owner who complained of government harassment over health violations allegedly kills three meat inspectors who came to examine the plant.

20.   It also says a federal meat inspector told investigators that Bil Mar managers were aware of increased levels of listeria about eight months before the nationwide listeriosis outbreak.