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Source: USDA FSIS, 7/9/22
This week, FSIS
awarded a contract to bioMérieux to incorporate its non-enrichment
quantification system for Salmonella, 'GENE-UP™ QUANT Salmonella,’ into the agency’s laboratory system. The agency evaluated commercially available quantification systems and determined that this technology is the most appropriate for use in the high throughput FSIS laboratory environment. A future Constituent Update will
announce when the method is available and when it will be implemented in all
three FSIS food testing laboratories.Salmonella quantification is a significant step in FSIS’ efforts to reduce Salmonella illnesses
associated with poultry and to modernize the diagnostic capabilities of the FSIS
food testing laboratories. Using this new system, FSIS will be able to measure
the amount of Salmonella present
in a regulatory sample, not solely its presence or absence. FSIS
plans to extend pathogen quantification technology to sample types other than
raw poultry rinses in the future. FSIS will continue to use Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook chapter 4.11 to isolate and identify Salmonella in raw poultry rinses.
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