NCC estimates that on an annual basis, over 200 million servings of this product will be lost, 500–1000 people will lose their jobs, and the annual cost to industry is significantly higher than USDA’s estimates.
FSIS considers any raw breaded stuffed chicken product that tests positive for Salmonella at one colony-forming unit
per gram or higher to be adulterated.
The United States filed a complaint to stop a seafood processor in Monroe, Washington, from processing and selling adulterated seafood products, the Justice Department announced.
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.
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.
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.”