The revised FSIS directive instructs inspection program personnel (IPP) on how to verify that meat and poultry establishments identify, segregate and properly hold adulterated product that has been returned to the establishment or has been received by the establishment for further processing.
Rancho Feeding Corp. it processed diseased and unsound animals and carried out these activities without the benefit or full benefit of federal inspection.
Neogen’s NeoSEEK meat species identification service detects adulteration at levels of 0.1% or 1% of mislabeled horse, pig, poultry, beef or sheep meat.
In my column last month (“USDA policies drag down processors who ‘test and find’, The National Provisioner, March 2012), I discussed how current FSIS policy (which invariably reacts critically to any positive testing results) discourages companies from aggressively testing to find pathogens in their products.
In my column last month (“USDA policies drag down processors who ‘test and find’, The National Provisioner, March 2012), I discussed how current FSIS policy (which invariably reacts critically to any positive testing results) discourages companies from aggressively testing to find pathogens in their products.
Two executives of a family meat company in Kansas City, Kan., were indicted Wednesday on charges of selling misbranded and adulterated poultry products across the country.
More further-processors are turning to NAMP and other meat and poultry associations for education and training on how to respond to the recent FSIS action declaring the “Big 6” non-O157 STECs as “adulterants.”
In a Federal Register Notice published Sept. 20, 2011, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that six shiga toxin producing E. coli serogroups — O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145 (hereinafter STEC) — are adulterants on raw, non-intact beef product or components in the same manner as E. coli O157:H7.
