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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to amend the Federal meat inspection regulations to eliminate the requirements for both ready-to-eat (RTE) and not-ready-to-eat (NRTE) pork and pork products to be treated to destroy trichinae (Trichinella spiralis) because the regulations are inconsistent with the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations, and because these prescriptive regulations are no longer necessary.
If this supplemental proposed rule is finalized, FSIS will end its Trichinella Approved Laboratory Program (TALP program) for the evaluation and approval of non-Federal laboratories that use the pooled sample digestion technique to analyze samples for the presence of trichinae.
All establishments producing pork products will have to determine whether Trichinella is a hazard reasonably likely to occur (RLTO) in their processes. If so, they will need to address this hazard in their HACCP system.
Friday March 18, 2016/ FSIS-USDA/ United States.
http://www.fsis.usda.gov
