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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) has released a new HACCP Model for certain meat and poultry products that receive a full lethality heat process step.

Regardless of whether or not cooks wash their poultry or not before cooking it, bacterial contamination is rampant in the kitchen, a recent study finds.

U.S. cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza have doubled in the last month.

A recent survey of UK lamb and turkey retail meat reveals new information about antimicrobial resistance levels in Escherichia coli and Campylobacter.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) launched a new webpage with resources and information to combat Salmonella in poultry.

This article gives a comparison of food safety/quality needs with employee safety during production, using the chemical application of peracetic acid to control environmental biological contamination as the example. It also examines how to better encourage collaboration between food safety and employee safety, using the hierarchy of controls as the guide.

The sous vide method is gaining popularity with restaurant chefs and consumers, but food safety guidelines for this cooking style should not be overlooked.

When determining the shelf life of meat products, it is important to consider how the growth of both spoilage organisms and pathogenic bacteria can be prevented, while at the same time keeping a keen eye on the sensory quality of the product.
 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations for membership to the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service will be mounting a stronger effort to reduce Salmonella illnesses associated with poultry products.