FDA/CFSAN Food Safety Constituent Update: April 12, 2002 New FDA Egg Safety Publications for Food Service Operations and Retail Food Stores; FDA Announces the Availability of Research Funds

April 12, 2002

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New FDA Egg Safety Publications for Food Service Operations and Retail Food Stores FDA Announces the Availability of Research Funds

New FDA Egg Safety Publications for
Food Service Operations and Retail Food Stores

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new brochure, Assuring the Safety of Eggs and Menu and Deli Items Made From Raw, Shell Eggs, and a new poster, Key Temperatures for Egg Safety, to provide food service and food retail managers with the information they need to make sure that fresh shell eggs and foods that contain them are safe. Developed by FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), these new materials explain FDA's regulations as well as the recommendations of the Food Code concerning egg safety.

The brochure covers receiving eggs and egg products, preventing contamination, cooking and serving, cooling, and hot or cold holding, as well as additional precautions for establishments that serve populations especially susceptible to foodborne illness such as young children, elderly persons and individuals with weakened immune systems. The poster illustrates temperatures and times for refrigeration, preparation, cooling and holding of eggs and egg-containing foods.

FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs is providing bulk copies of the new brochure and poster to FDA field offices and state food safety regulators for distribution to food service and food retailing establishments. Free individual copies of the brochure and poster are available by sending a toll-free fax, including name and mailing address, to CFSAN's Outreach and Information Center at 1-877-366-3322.

FDA Announces the Availability of Research Funds

On April 11, 2002, FDA announced in the Federal Register the availability of approximately $500,000 in research funds for fiscal year 2002. These funds will be used to support collaborative research efforts between CFSAN and scientists and to complement and accelerate ongoing research in the area of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in order to avoid their presence in the nation's food supply, food additives, and dietary supplements.

Proposed projects designed to fulfill the following objectives will be considered for funding:

Objective 1: Develop proteinase resistant proteins that can serve as surrogates for infectious prions associated with the family of TSE diseases.

Objective 2: Devise a system that will demonstrate that the surrogates will accurately predict the efficacy of prion-targeted inactivation methods in the context of FDA-regulated foods, food additives, dietary supplements or cosmetics, or the equipment used to manufacture or process them.

More detailed information about the objectives and information on submission of an application can be found on FDA's Web site at:

http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/041102b.htm

Food Safety Initiative Staff
E-mail: chall@cfsan.fda.gov Office Number: (301) 436-2125 · FAX (301) 436-2605
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