Food Safety Inspection Services

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 Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS) continues to sample retail outlets and analyses epidemiological data and, as a result of their findings, there are recommendations for verification sampling of production facilities, hygiene training focused on sanitation, refrigeration, and safe handling of unpreserved products and the inclusion of anti-listeria agents in products.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health service under the USDA. One of many important areas of FSIS's responsibilities is its labeling guidance, policies, and inspection methods that will ensure that all labels are truthful and not misleading.

FSIS laid out three options for manufacturers and stated that the level of scrutiny FSIS would apply (through verification) would be driven by the option selected, with firms that relied solely on sanitation being subject to the most stringent verification requirements. As stated in the rule, “the alternatives that establishments will have to select from are:

•Alternative 1 – Employ BOTH a post lethality treatment AND a growth inhibitor for Listeria on RTE products. Establishments opting for this alternative will be subject to FSIS verification activity that focuses on post-lethality treatment effectiveness. Sanitation is important but is built into the degree of lethality necessary for safety as delivered by the post-lethality treatment.

•Alternative 2 – Employ EITHER a post lethality treatment OR a growth inhibitor for Listeria on RTE products. Establishments opting for this alternative will be subject to more frequent FSIS verification activity than Alternative 1.

•Alternative 3 – Employ sanitation measures only. Establishments opting for this alternative will be targeted with the most frequent level of FSIS verification activity. Within this alternative, FSIS will place increased scrutiny on operations that produce hotdogs and deli meats. In a 2001 risk ranking, FSIS and the Food and Drug Administration identified these products as posing a relatively high risk for illness and death.

U.S. Department of Agriculture: Food Safety and Inspection Service

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service enforce food safety laws governing domestic and imported meat and poultry products by the following:

•Inspecting food animals for diseases before and after slaughter.

•Inspecting meat and poultry slaughter and processing plants.

•Monitoring and inspecting processed egg products with the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.

•Collecting and analyzing samples of food products for microbial and chemical contaminants and infectious and toxic agents.

•Establishing production standards for use of food additives and other ingredients in preparing and packaging meat and poultry products, plant sanitation, thermal processing, and other processes.

•Making sure all foreign meat and poultry-processing plants exporting to the United States meet U.S. standards.

•Seeking voluntary recalls by meat and poultry processors of unsafe products.

•Sponsoring research on meat and poultry safety.

•Educating industry and consumers on safe food-handling practices.