The "new idea" of letting pork processing plants do their own
inspections was tried experimentally under Obama. In 2014-2017, the
plants which did this had
twice
as many violations as other plants.
Does this surprise you? It does not surprise me. In general, the
reason businesses lobby to run their own inspection is so that they
can do a quick and sloppy job of it, and sell things they should have
discarded. The result can spread disease.
In general, the reason why government agencies accept these proposals
from business is that they are trying to serve business rather than
serve the public. A good government would teach its officials to
laugh those lobbyists out of the office.
The US should simply cancel this bad policy.