Now that the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) is in operation, an aggressive environmental monitoring program is becoming increasingly important, especially where there is potential for post-kill step contamination.
The seek and destroy process (S&D) is an investigative technique based on a more aggressive systems-based approach. This approach has already been widely used in food plants, and has shown success in finding and eliminating persistence pathogen contamination in a post processing environment.