USDA FSIS Clears Up Inaccurate Media Reports Regarding Poultry Sampling Results
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), in a letter authored by Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Carmen Rottenberg, is clearing up faulty information that was disseminated last year regarding poultry sampling test results.
The information was released in March 2017 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The information, which FSIS calls “unconfirmed, preliminary test results for samples taken from poultry”, continues to be passed around as truth. USDA says this information is false.