The European Commission has called for feedback on the draft of a regulation concerning Salmonella testing and sampling in poultry.
Comments on the draft act can be made until Aug. 16. To read the draft and file comments, please click here to visit the official website.
The Standing Committee on
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Scientists target pathogens with research
The invention of a new small
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Poultry processing plants that do not meet Salmonella control performance standards will have to conduct new follow-up sampling procedures beginning early next year, according to a notice from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
In a Dec. 16 notice, FSIS announced the new follow-up protocol for testing, referred
Continue Reading Followup tests begin Jan. 13 at poultry plants failing standards
Certain poultry producers have a few extra weeks to beef up their pathogen reduction programs, which were scheduled to face new Salmonella and Campylobacter testing beginning in May. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) won’t begin assessing whether poultry operations are meeting new pathogen reduction standards
Continue Reading Feds delay poultry testing; expect many operations to fail
Last summer’s preliminary data from Salmonella and Campylobacter testing of raw meat and poultry for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are out, and there were mixed results. During the July-September quarter, FSIS collected and tested 3,985 samples for its Salmonella and Campylobacter verification program. The percent-positive rates for
Continue Reading Mixed Results Shown in USDA Quarterly Tests for Salmonella and Campylobacter in Poultry
An antimicrobial product used to disinfect and sanitize food contact surfaces in the restaurant and manufacturing industries is now being tested directly on food and has shown a “materially significant reduction” in Salmonella contamination on poultry. That’s according to Hank Lambert, CEO of PURE Bioscience Inc. of El Cajon, CA,
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