The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, responsible for ensuring that meat, poultry, and processed egg products are safe, collects data at thousands of processing facilities.  A new report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine examines the potential food safety benefits and consequences of publishing inspection and testing data with the names of specific meat, poultry, and egg product processing plants on the Internet for public access.

Advance copies of the report will be available to reporters at 3 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Nov. 29. The chair of the committee that wrote the report will discuss its conclusions and take questions in a  web conference beginning on Nov. 30.