USDA FSIS Constituent Update - FSIS Consumer Research on the Safe Handling Instructions Label

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FSIS Consumer Research on the Safe Handling Instructions Label
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is planning to collect information in the form of consumer research that will include a web-based experimental study and a behavior change study to help inform potential revisions to the current Safe Handling Instructions (SHI) label and assess whether a label revision would improve consumer food safety behaviors.

FSIS Food Defense Vulnerability Questionnaire
FSIS is planning to collect information from food industry and academic experts on vulnerabilities and research activities related to food defense for FSIS-regulated food products. The purpose of this information collection is to inform FSIS food defense efforts to help protect against an intentional attack on the food supply.

FSIS Posts Individual Salmonella Category Status for Poultry Carcass Establishments and Aggregate Results for Chicken Parts, Comminuted Poultry and Poultry Carcasses Tested for Salmonella and Campylobacter
FSIS has updated the individual establishments’ category status for Salmonella performance standards for poultry carcasses at: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/data-collection-and-reports/microbiology/salmonella-verification-testing-program/establishment-categories

FSIS also will update the aggregate sampling results relative to process control categories for establishments producing young chicken or turkey carcasses, raw chicken parts or not ready-to-eat (NRTE) comminuted poultry products at: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/data-collection-and-reports/microbiology/salmonella-verification-testing-program/aggregate-data.

FSIS Personnel Updates
Frank Mays has been reassigned to the Office of Management (OM) Assistant Administrator position.