FSIS Requests Input on Salmonella Programs for Pork and Poultry
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is requesting comment on proposed pathogen reduction performance standards for Salmonella in raw contaminated pork and raw pork cuts. FSIS is also requesting comment on how it plans to assess whether establishments producing these products are effectively addressing Salmonella, using a moving window of FSIS sampling results.
If the proposed pathogen reduction performance standards are finalized, FSIS will determine individual establishment performance based on the previous 52 weeks of FSIS Salmonella sample results. FSIS will then report on its website the category of each establishment subject to the performance standard.