On Oct. 19, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced it will undertake a new approach to regulating Salmonella in poultry.
In the coming months, FSIS will begin a series of roundtables to gather information and recommendations on how to approach meet the federal government’s Healthy People 2030 goal of achieving a 25% reduction in Salmonella illnesses. Based on initial discussions, we anticipate FSIS will look to the poultry industry to, among other things, implement preharvest controls and change sampling procedures.