USDA CAFETERIA SHUT DOWN BY HEALTH INSPECTORS

This one's priceless. Our nation's top agency guaranteeing the safety of our food was closed for multiple violations of the D.C. Health Code - including "'water leaking excessively' in the ceiling, employees not wearing hair restraints, and inadequate cleaning of the inside of ice machines, cabinets, surfaces and equipment. The biggest problem, however, seemed to be mouse droppings found everywhere ..." There's that old bugaboo - animal feces - that the USDA can't seem to get away from. According to the Government Accountability Project, "an industry-friendly USDA protected a Colorado beef processor and failed to intervene when contaminated meat was discovered at the plant two years before a massive meat recall." But at least that time it wasn't mouse feces, right?