they do have inspectors that sign off on meat, but it's as you said, a rubber stamp, not a check for shit that can kill people. that is what recalls are for.  case in point there was a listeria outbreak in chicken that generated a product recall recently. did fda detect and stop that? fuck no, it got into the public and the company sorted that out, not the fda. they clearly aren't doing their fucking one job, which is to catch this exact type of public health threat.
United States