The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued FSIS Notice 08-10:
Nationwide Raw
Chicken Parts Microbiological Baseline Data Collection Program. This notice
provides information to
inspection program personnel (IPP) at the establishments that are included as
part of this baseline
data collection program.
Information in this notice applies to the 90-day training (i.e., shake down)
period that will be
conducted before the actual baseline study begins. The 90-day training period
began with the
issuance of this notice. The sample collection procedures for this study are
different than those for
the routine sampling of other poultry products.
This Program will collect rinses of raw chicken parts at all establishments
that:
1. Slaughter broilers and cut the carcasses into chicken parts of the type
typically available for
purchase by consumers;
2. Receive whole chicken carcasses from other federally inspected establishments
and cut
carcasses into halves, or quarters, or individual parts of the type typically
available for purchase by
consumers; or
3. Receive raw chicken parts from other federally inspected establishments and
cut them further into
halves, or quarters, or individual parts of the type typically available for
purchase by consumers.
This baseline study will provide FSIS and the regulated industry with data
concerning the prevalence
and quantitative levels of selected foodborne pathogens and microorganisms that
serve as indicators
of process control (e.g., Campylobacter, generic Escherichia coli, Salmonella,
Enterobacteriaceae,
coliforms, and plate counts of aerobic microorganisms).
For the purposes of this survey, FSIS is defining raw cut-up chicken parts as
raw, (uncooked) cut-up
chicken parts, whether skin-on or skinless or bone-in or boneless, such as, but
not limited to:
breasts, thighs, wings, legs, necks, backs, half- or quarter-carcasses, and
internal organs such as
giblets (e.g. liver, heart, or gizzard) typically available for purchase by
consumers.
To view this notice, click here:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oppde/rdad/FSISNotices/08-10.pdf
Source:
American Meat Institute
