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FSIS to launch new poultry sampling program
Story Date: 2/26/2013
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Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 2/26/13
USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has published a notice that informs inspection program personnel (IPP) that establishments producing not ready-to-eat (NRTE) comminuted chicken and turkey products are now required to reassess their HACCP plans for those products.
In the notice [http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FSISNotices/17-13.pdf], “Responsibilities Related to Establishments Producing Not Ready-to-Eat (NRTE) Comminuted Chicken and Turkey Products,” FSIS announced that it will expand its Salmonella and Campylobacter Verification Sampling program and will initiate an NRTE comminuted poultry sampling program (NCPESP) starting April 20.
According to FSIS, companies that produce NRTE comminuted poultry products must reassess their HACCP plans to take into account several Salmonella outbreaks associated with consumption of comminuted NRTE turkey products. “The occurrence of these outbreaks represents a change that could affect the hazard analysis or alter HACCP plans for comminuted poultry products,” according to the notice.
NRTE comminuted chicken products are produced in a similar manner. “[Processors that make] NRTE comminuted chicken and turkey products need to reassess their HACCP plans. If establishments produce such product but have controls and documentation showing that all the product goes to another establishment for complete lethality, they are not required to conduct this reassessment,” according to FSIS.
NRTE comminuted poultry product is defined as any non-breaded, non-battered raw or otherwise NRTE poultry (chicken or turkey) product that has been ground, mechanically separated, or hand- or mechanically-deboned and further chopped, flaked, minced, or otherwise processed to reduce particle size – including consumer-ready products or intermediary products for further processing as NRTE product that are destined for sale as NRTE product to consumers (including raw and heat treated but not fully cooked products).
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