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Some photos documenting my career in food safety with the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service. Implementation of the Pathogen Reduction/HACCP Mega Reg led to some conflict at Ground Zero that resulted in Stuckgate.

Basic Combat Training, Fort Jackson, S.C. 1975. Twenty years of age.

Private Gossett receiving commendation as 91R10 Distinguished Honor Graduate at Fort Sam Houston, Texas 1976

Accepted at University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine, 1982

Trying out my new microscope, 1982

Graduating Senior at University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine, 1986

Graduation Day, June 1986

Baby faced and clean shaven in August of1995, received a cake from coworkers upon reassignment to a cattle slaughter establishment.

Some of my coworkers missed me!

Lee Meats in Alma, Georgia September 1995

Lee Meats, Alma Georgia, September 1995

Inspector JoAnn Johnson attending the head inspection station, 1999

Inspector Odell Riley is smiling, amused at being dwarfed by beef carcass, 1999

Inspector Odell Riley attending the viscera inspection station, 1999

Observing the gutting of beef carcasses, Lee Meats, 1999

QC Technician observing final trim operations, Lee Meats, 1999

Carcass cooler at Lee Meats, 1999

Boning room operations, Lee Meats, 1999

Boning room operations, Lee Meats, 1999.

Boning room employee cutting loins at the band saw station, Lee Meats, 1999

Boning room employee cutting loins at the band saw station, 1999

Boning room operations, Lee Meats, 1999

Boning operations, note the filling of combo bins with finished product, 1999

My office, Lee Meats, 1999

My office, Lee Meats, 1999

USDA Inspection Office, Lee Meats, 1999. Note the newly arrived computer that we received 1997.

STUCKGATE is a fiasco of federal law enforcement and a scandal that is bigger than Watergate, it is a billion dollar cover up of criminal wrongdoing.

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