USDA FSIS Publishes FY2023 Public Health Regulations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) has published its Public Health Regulations (PHRs) for fiscal year 2023 (FY2023). The PHRs, which are updated annually, describe the thresholds that FSIS uses to prioritize establishments for Public Health Risk Evaluations (PHREs) and to alert inspection personnel of elevated PHR noncompliance levels.
PHRs are verified regulations that have statistically higher individual noncompliance rates in establishments during the three-month period prior to a microbiological positive or a public health-related enforcement action. The statistical association does not always imply that a particular regulation constitutes a more serious food safety concern; rather, the statistical associations are leveraged to better align scheduling criteria and agency resources.