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Draft Compliance Guidelines Available for Comment
These draft guidance documents provide information about the design of sampling and testing programs for E. coli O157:H7. FSIS has extended the comment period. Comments will be accepted until November 17, 2008.

Results of Checklist and Reassessment of Control for Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Beef Operations (Aug 2008; PDF Only)
This report is an analysis of data collected as a result of FSIS Notice 65-07. It provides a profile of operations at raw beef product manufacturers and will help inform the Agency on policy issues. FSIS welcomes comments.

Petition Submitted by the American Meat Institute (PDF Only)
Citizens Petition To Recognize the Use of E-Beam on Carcasses as a Processing Aid. More Petitions...

This section includes information on the meat, poultry, and egg products inspection laws, Federal Register documents, to include access to the latest version of Title 9 CFR Parts 300-599, Petitions, FSIS directives and notices, FSIS inspection issuances, and administrative regulations.

This section includes information on compliance guides, HACCP guides, the humane interactive knowledge exchange (HIKE) , the interactive knowledge exchange (IKE), labeling guidance, new technologies, and small and very small outreach.

This section includes information on meat, poultry, and egg products establishments, regulatory enforcement and Risk-Based Inspection.

This section includes information on the requirements for State inspection programs, reviews of State programs, plants operating under State inspection, and States without inspection programs.

This section contains information on exports and imports, the equivalence process, import and export data, and Codex Alimentarius.

This section contains links to reports from the National Advisory Committee on Meat & Poultry Inspection as well as the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria For Foods.

Last Modified: September 5, 2008


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