USA: FSIS official explains reasoning on proposed Salmonella rule

게시됨 2024년 9월 20일

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The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing new rules to reduce the risk of Salmonella infections from poultry products, focusing on the serotypes Enteritidis, Typhimurium, and I,4,[5],12:I:- for chicken, and Hadar, Typhimurium, and Muenchen for turkey. The proposed rule would establish product standards to limit Salmonella to certain levels and require poultry establishments to implement pre-harvest examinations and statistical process control. The FSIS is soliciting public comments on the proposal, which was published on Aug. 7, and plans to host webinars to explain the changes. However, the National Chicken Council criticizes the proposal, arguing it is unnecessary, will increase costs, and lead to food waste, and expresses concerns about the potential impact on product flow and bird welfare.

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The agency stated it would establish final product standards to keep levels of Salmonella at or above 10 colony-forming units (CFU) per g/ml and any detectable level of at least one of the Salmonella serotypes of public health significance from entering commerce. FSIS’ proposed rule will focus on the Salmonella serotypes of public health significance identified for raw chicken carcasses, chicken parts and comminuted chicken, which are Enteritidis, Typhimurium, and I,4,[5],12:I:- ; and for raw comminuted turkey are Hadar, Typhimurium and Muenchen. Officials have focused on these six serotypes because they cause most illnesses. Around the time of the proposed change in the FSIS policy, Emilio Esteban, USDA undersecretary for food safety, discussed the reason for the changes. Esteban also explained what poultry establishments must do to comply with the new guidelines if the final rule passes. He said the poultry industry will have to examine birds pre-harvest. Esteban said FSIS does ...

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