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Saw this investigative report on Indy news and makes you think just what you are getting.
13 Investigates finds feds ignoring"hot trucks" - 13 WTHR
Just think of all the trucks that do not get stopped!
13 Investigates finds feds ignoring"hot trucks" - 13 WTHR
13 Investigates finds feds ignoring"hot trucks" - 13 WTHR
Last week, trooper David Eggers stopped a truck that was speeding near the town of Kentland in northwest Indiana. Inside the truck, he found boxes full of contaminated food.
"Fluids from chicken and beef and pork were running onto the floor, and we found fluids from beef on vegetables," Eggers told Eyewitness News.
WTHR was there to see the contaminated load up close. Eyewitness News cameras captured blood on the floor of the delivery truck so much blood that it was flowing out onto the street below.
"These boxes are soaked through from blood," complained Newton County environmental health officer Jill Johnson as she inspected the load. "There's raw meat together with vegetables all moisture damaged and the potential for cross contamination is very great," she said.
Thousands of pounds of food inside the A1 Food Service delivery truck were supposed to be refrigerated, but the driver told inspectors he forgot to turn on the truck's refrigeration unit. As a result, inspectors measured the temperature inside the cargo area of the truck at nearly 70 degrees -- dangerously high for transporting food. State and federal regulations require refrigerated food to be stored and transported at or below 41 degrees.
Johnson condemned the load, and all of the perishable food on board destined for restaurants in Indianapolis, Columbus and Bloomington was destroyed.
"You wouldn't want your family eating any of that that we just unloaded from this truck," Eggers said. "Hard to believe anyone would transport food like this."
Just think of all the trucks that do not get stopped!
Indiana State Police have repeatedly stopped other trucking companies carrying loads of spoiled meat, eggs, vegetables, milk and cheese. All of it was supposed to go to Indiana grocery stores and restaurants before being condemned by inspectors.
"It's happening a lot more frequently. Just about any day you go out now, you can find people in violation of the safe transportation for these food products," said Capt. Wayne Andrews, who oversees ISP's commercial vehicle enforcement division.
While ISP patrols have caught tens of thousands of pounds of spoiled food in the past four months alone, state troopers admit most contaminated truckloads of food slip through the cracks -- cracks that were supposed to be fixed years ago.
In 2005, Congress ordered the Food and Drug Administration to create new regulations to protect the transportation of our nation's food supply. The Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 2005 was designed to increase monitoring and accountability for the millions of food shipments that take place annually in the United States.
Six years since the act became law, the FDA still has not issued the new regulations mandated by Congress.
13 Investigates finds feds ignoring"hot trucks" - 13 WTHR