On August 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing proposed revised Campylobacter performance standards for not-ready-to-eat (NRTE) comminuted chicken and turkey.
Specifically, FSIS proposes a performance standard of no more than five positive Campylobacter results for every 52 tests of 325-gram samples of comminuted poultry. Under this proposed performance standard, an establishment producing comminuted poultry would achieve the performance standard if it has a positive rate of 9.6 percent or less.