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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Food Safety (OFS) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have released a plan to decrease Salmonella, one of the leading causes of foodborne illnesses. The Roadmap to Reducing Salmonella: Driving Change through Science-Based Policy outlines programs and policies that are science-based, data-driven, and promote innovation to reduce Salmonella in meat, poultry, and egg products.
As of 2019, FSIS has fully implemented routine pork products sampling at regulated establishments. This sampling continues and has replaced carcass sampling that found few positive Salmonella samples. Pork cuts and comminuted products are analyzed for Salmonella and aerobic plate counts. The sample results and analysis will be used to develop future policies and propose Salmonella performance standards to target reduction in the levels of Salmonella in raw pork products by the end of the year. These data are also important measures that pork establishments and swine producers can use to make changes to reduce Salmonella contamination in pork products.
September 18, 2020/ USDA/ United States.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
