Shortly, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will issue a proposal to require that establishments “control” product pending the results of agency adulterant testing.This proposal is in response to
It’s no secret that if we really want to further reduce pathogens from meat products, we need to develop and employ new and improved interventions. The struggle, however, is identifying
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will begin implementing its Public Health Information System (PHIS) by the end of this year.PHIS is designed to be a unified, real-time data
It is a challenge to select the regulatory issue for this column. There are so many issues that will impact inspected establishments over the next year. These include: the pressure
On March 19, 2010, FSIS issued a Draft Guidance: HACCP Systems Validation. This draft document outlines procedures plants can use to validate their HACCP systems. It is essentially a re-interpretation of the HACCP regulation published in 1996.
