- ID (Added: 16-Aug-2024)
- 278
- Source
- USDA/Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
- Type
- Website
- Title
- Clostridium Perfringens Market Basket Study (Website)
- Description
- The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) commissioned a Market Basket Study from May through September 2021 to assess the levels of Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens) in federally inspected ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products sold at retail locations. With the exception of one RTE beef sample found to be positive at 1.08 log10 cfu/g, all samples were below the limit of detection (0.5 log10 cfu/g). The results of this study support the conclusion that guidance currently being used for the cooling of large mass non-intact RTE meat and poultry products is adequate and does not merit revision. Therefore, establishments may continue to use the less stringent cooling procedures identified for these products in the 2021 FSIS Stabilization Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products (Revised Appendix B). The study was not designed to be a baseline, so FSIS is not planning to make changes to regulatory performance standards based on the results.
- Format
- Website
- Applies to
- Organisms: Clostridium perfringens
- Foods: Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry
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