WASHINGTON NEWS

Performance standards for RTE meat and poultry proposed
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to establish food safety performance standards for ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, including dried products, salt-cured products, fermented products, cooked and otherwise processed products, and thermally processed, commercially sterile products. The proposed standards set levels of pathogen reduction and limits on pathogen growth that official meat and poultry establishments mus…