[kinoxi]

I read and understand what you are saying. I don’t agree with setting an arbitrary threshold below which no inspection takes place.

[IrishCatholic]

That is the point. There is a false sense of security in the label. The number is moot. The smaller local producer has more incentive to provide safe food than the international conglomerate that will hide the problem. When the famous turkey recall at Thanksgiving happened it was released as 400,000 pounds. Two weeks later it was reissued at 4 MILLION pounds. But by then the news had dropped the story. The corporation made the decision to do this to save money and PR. Those are the people you prefer handling your food safety? The Feds knew before hand about the problems with the spinach and the peanut butter. They also knew the limited number of actual inspections taking place.
If you want a buffer it is time to break the USDA inspections altogether and reform it with simplified inspection laws and a BOATLOAD more inspectors- Starting with imports.