The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing a draft Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) that revises the current CPG Sec. 540.525 on decomposition and histamine in fish and fishery products.
Since Executive Order 13777 Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda was signed in 2017, Regulatory Reform Task Forces have evaluated and proposed changes to existing regulations to repeal, replace and modify cumbersome requirements. Several labeling requirements for meat and poultry products are under review.
For as long as the food industry has been processing raw animal products, many of those products could be sold to consumers despite the presence of many pathogens.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has set a goal that by the end of this year, 90 percent of all establishments will have functional food defense plans.
A petition was filed with the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in October 2009 requesting FSIS issue an interpretive rule declaring all enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC),