date:Sep 27, 2012
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is to change the current procedures for Listeria moncytogenes product sampling.
The changes in ready to eat (RTE) meat and poultry products will start from November.
FSIS will increase the number of product samples it collects under its Routine Risk-based L. monocytogenes (RLm) Sampling Program and its Intensified Verification Testing (IVT) protocol from three to five samples per sampling unit.
FSIS laboratories will composite the five 25g product