The USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a notice last week that gives its inspection personnel specific instructions on how to randomly select the beef trimmings to be tested under ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing its intention to redesign its E. coli O157:H7 verification testing program for beef manufacturing trimmings to ...

FSIS will discontinue Salmonella sampling set procedures in ground beef products for most firms from June 29 after considering comments on proposed changes. The move will not affect establishments ...

On August 28, 2024, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released an updated Guideline on Substantiating Animal-Raising or Environment-Related Labeling Claims for meat and poultry product ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is looking to expand its E. coli testing of ground beef and ground beef components. Toward that end, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking ...

Sampling of raw beef manufacturing trimmings for six non-O157 strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) is set to begin from 4 June 2012, the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has ...

USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing changes it will make in its procedures for Listeria monocytogenes(Lm) product sampling programs in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.

Inspectors from USDA should expand their sampling method for detecting E. coli bacteria in meat used for ground beef, according to an agency audit. The current sampling program isn’t accurate enough ...

US food safety authorities have urged producers of ready-to-eat meats not to change listeria-related food safety practices in the run up to inspections. In a letter from the US Department of ...

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Aug. 28 that it updated guidelines on how it supports documentation for animal-raising or environment-related claims on labels for ...

In each outbreak below, a dot represents a test for salmonella performed by the Food Saftey and Inspection Service. A blue dot (·) means no salmonella; a red dot (·) means inspectors found the ...