The inspector general, Phyllis K. Fong, told a joint session of two House committees, Government Reform and Agriculture, that the two cases revealed confusion within the department, failures to follow regulations, disagreements between inspectors and slaughterhouse owners, and other weaknesses.
Others complained about local departments' failure to share information with neighboring cities and towns.
It said three incidents in March 2006 were not progressed "either by failures of paperwork to reach the correct departments, failure to follow safeguarding procedures, or to conduct thorough checks prior to case closure".
For example, the consumer bureau said the Education and Treasury departments' failure to produce data on student loans they guarantee or own has impeded the government's ability to supervise the market.
Studies examining laboratory or radiology departments' failure to report critical results, uncommunicated pending results during handover or discharge summaries and physicians' failure to communicate results to patients were excluded.
Department after department confronts failures that would all make daily headlines, were they not hidden by looming Brexit Armageddon.
U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow heard arguments about how much victims of racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department should be paid for the department's failure to comply with orders to stop profiling Latino drivers in a case dating from 2007.
The lapses, detailed in a series of meetings, include what the prosecutors characterized as the department's failure to find witnesses who were readily available, the failure to track problem officers with repeat violations and the premature dismissal of serious cases.
The two agencies have battled over the department's failure to take disciplinary action against police officers on many complaints substantiated by the board, and, until last year, its failure to even notify the board when it did take action.
The department's failure to clarify this issue is unacceptable.
She said the department's failure to act was discouraging other immigrant workers from reporting abusive conditions.
