PMA’s Chief Science and Technology Officer Dr. Bob Whitaker responded to a USA Today editorial which claimed food safety auditors are too closely tied to the industries they audit. Specifically the editorial stated: “The system has an inherent conflict of interest: While retailers generally require audits before buying from a supplier, the suppliers often hire and pay the auditors who evaluate them. It’s like authors hiring their own book reviewers.”
It went on to draw similarities between the audit system and the U.S. financial crisis in 2008.
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