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.

On August 7, 2024, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published its updated “Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry Products” consisting of a ...

On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced its final determination to declare Salmonella an adulterant in not-ready-to-eat (NRTE) ...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are continuing their efforts to control Salmonella contamination in poultry products and reduce foodborne ...

Sure, I would like to ban all Salmonella from chicken, but I learned long ago that you never make progress by making “perfect the enemy of the good.” Making the three Salmonellas that are know to ...

In late April and early May 2025, social media users claimed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would no longer require companies to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products. The ...

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 ...

NPPC said that the agency is proposing changes to its existing prevalence-based performance standards approach to Salmonella despite acknowledging that it “has been effective in reducing the ...

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 ...

Four petitions for policy changes — one from 2016 — have received final rulings from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The oldest petition was from the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) ...