I merely used the steam as one example. It was mentioned in an article and apperantly it took the e-coli and made it airborne, landing everywhere.

Current practice is to clean the entire area each day after shift. If the lines had to be shut down durng a shift, costs would be huge.

A couple neighbor kids work at a pork plant, and they tell of playing games with the pork parts...how long can they get away with dropping a piece on the floor and putting it back on the line. If the are caught they get reprimanded, but they think it is fun.

2 lead hands got busted fo leaving the plant because they got set up done in 2 hours instead of 4, but the plant was so short handed that only 1 at a time could get the suspension. These are 20 yr old kids making $18 bucks an hour.

Back to e-coli, considering the huge amount of beef processed, the recalls are relatively small. I never give it a second thought with my own animals, I have never heard the processor talk about even being tested. They just are very clean, have well maintained facilities and more mature people work where I go.