NSIL Risk Management Activities
- Provides a voluntary program to control Salmonella in fish meal
- Sanitary evaluations of processing facilities
- Analysis of fish meal for the presence of Salmonella
- Export certification of fish meal, fish oil, and fish solubles
- Provides expertise for various ISSC Committees and Subcommittees
- Performs forensic laboratory investigations to determine mislabeled seafood species and economic fraud violations
- Manages Swordfish and Patagonian Toothfish Import Control Programs and provides enforcement focus
- Provides regulatory Risk Analysis to selected NMFS Fishery Management Regulations
- Engages in national and international regulatory policy development
- Provides leadership in the formulation of NMFS/NOAA policy on Mercury in Fish
