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The push toward a far-reaching meat and poultry traceability system in the U.S. is going slowly.

Food is an attractive target because everyone eats. And, in the future, terrorists can use the food supply to create fear, inflict public harm and damage food company brands.

While many factors including high employee attrition rates affect the eradication of contaminants, perhaps the biggest obstacle is the abundance of plants and equipment that were built years ago with fewer food safety-related features now common to newer designs.

PMMI’s Jorge Izquierdo discusses how traceability, coding and labeling is even more important considering Food Safety Modernization Act and legislation like it.

Antimicrobial interventions have been instrumental in improving food safety in the meat and poultry industry.

MOL-PCR can rapidly screen samples concurrently for several STEC O serogroups and three major virulence factors (genes for two Shiga toxin and intimin).

While the total number of FSIS recalls is down and allergen recalls are down by roughly 50 percent, there are several troubling trends.

While energizing achieves the objective of creating a clean piece of equipment, the process by which energizing is performed has the ability to cause significant worker safety concerns.