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FSIS research priorities include sampling, pre-harvest, antimicrobial resistance
Story Date: 12/10/2012
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Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 12/7/12
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has updated its research priorities. Among them are: finding alternative approaches to N60 sampling; evaluating pre-harvest interventions; and determining contributing factors for antimicrobial resistant strains in poultry and cattle.
"Our goal is to effectively use science to understand foodborne illness and emerging trends," said USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Elisabeth Hagen in a news release. "External research is critical to our public health mission and ultimately serves as another tool at our disposal to protect the food supply for over 300 million Americans."
This list provides useful guidance to researchers that are preparing grants for submission to agencies that fund food safety research, such as USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, scientific academies and private foundations.
Here is the full list:
Investigate and/or develop emerging screening technologies to reduce time for detection.
Investigate and/or develop emerging screening technologies for enhanced subtype/virulence characterization of pathogens.
Investigate and/or develop emerging screening technologies to provide multi-analyte detection from a single analytical sample portion.Investigate and/or develop emerging screening technologies which are applicable to FSIS regulated products (meat, poultry, egg products and foods containing these products).
Develop rapid methods for screening of "high-risk" compounds such as environmental contaminants.
Develop or refine testing methods for quantifying target pathogens in meat, poultry and egg products.Identify and evaluate alternative approaches to N60 sampling.
Develop PBPK models to estimate chemical concentrations in beef, pork and chicken tissues.
Identify and/or develop emerging technologies for real-time testing for higher levels of contamination prior to slaughter.
Develop non-targeted methods to detect chemical contaminants in FSIS regulated products.Further develop the use of indicator/surrogate organisms in processing establishments to validate and monitor intervention effectiveness.
Evaluate the potential effectiveness of pre-harvest interventions on finished products.
Develop a screen for the detection of hormone and hormone-like compounds.
Determine retail use statistics/practices which could contribute chemicals (insecticide, rodenticide, fungicide, antimicrobial) or pathogens to FSIS regulated products.
Determine the magnitude and significance of migration of chemicals (e.g., endocrine disruptors) from packaging into FSIS regulated products.
Determine the effectiveness of parallel and/or simultaneous application of more than one pre-harvest and/or post-harvest intervention as a control strategy.
Conduct ex post evaluation of regulatory initiatives.
Determine the presence and contributing factors for antimicrobial resistant strains in poultry and cattle.
Develop or refine cooking and cooling models.
Develop or refine dose-response curves for pathogens (including specific subtypes) of interest.
Determine (validate) the effectiveness (log-reduction) of interventions used by industry to reduce levels of pathogens on FSIS regulated products.
Identify consumer practices which compromise the safety of FSIS regulated products and/or generate data to develop public education and outreach to improve food-handling practices.
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