As the 2012 calendar year comes to an end, The National Provisioner sits down with Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety, to assess the state of food safety in the meat- and poultry-processing industries. We bring you this Q&A in conjunction with our year-end coverage, starting in October with our State of the Industry report and continuing through November with our 2013 Consumer Trends report. To read these articles, simply click on their titles to be directed to them here on our site.
NP: Will the new testing for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STECs) be sufficiently effective to reduce illnesses from these strains of E. coli?