Now there is little hunting in Santa Clara County, and the health authorities prohibit serving meat that is not federally inspected.

Dr. Camire, concerned about safety, advised ordering only from companies that are federally inspected.

When we start requiring that all farms be federally inspected?

According to the American Lamb Council, about 113,000 head of federally inspected sheep were slaughtered during the Easter period in 1986.

A complete HACCP system is mandatory for all federally inspected establishments.

Federally inspected plants account for over 90% of all the meat processed in Canada.

The federally inspected slaughter nationally was 250,000 head on Monday and 280,000 on Wednesday.

Small markets like Miesfeld's, which are not federally inspected, cannot legally ship sausage.

The Agriculture Department rules apply solely to federally inspected meat-processing plants, however, and not to supermarkets or butcher shops that grind their own beef.

(Oh, federally inspected slaughterhouses are few and far between, and unless you're an agribusiness giant, nearly impossible get into.)