On Oct. 28, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a Federal Register Notice titled “Changes to the Salmonella Verification Testing Program: Proposed Performance Standards for Salmonella in Raw Ground Beef and Beef Manufacturing Trimmings and Related Agency Verification Procedures”. The notice proposes updated Salmonella performance standards for raw ground beef and new performance standards for beef manufacturing trimmings for establishments that produce more than 50,000 pounds of these products per day. The notice also announces an increase in sampling for Salmonella in such establishments, announces how the agency will communicate to the public an establishment’s performance with the new standards, and addresses how the agency plans to assess whether beef establishments are effectively addressing Salmonella in their plants.