Too_Many_Tools wrote:
Today it is beef....tomorrow toys...the next day...well something
else...fasteners, tires, tools?

It would seem that lack of quality control has just cost this company
its existence and its employees their livelihoods.

Should a company be responsible for its own quality control or is it a
responsibility of government to protect us?

I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
Absolutely it is the COMPANY that needs to do its own QC. You
can't trust the government to be check everything, decide how
many items per hour to sample, etc. The government should be in
on setting minimum standards in most cases, but a company should
be free to exceed those quality standards if they choose, and
that certainly requires your own inspectors. Then, the gov't is
mostly responsible to see that nobody is cheating on the system.

Let the gov't do all QC, and pretty soon everything is going to
fall apart. As for food, do you know how FEW food inspectors
(or drug inspectors, that's even a worse case!) there are in the US?

Jon