Listeria
Notices, Directives and Policy
Memos
FSIS Federal Register Notice:
Update of the 2003 Interagency Quantitative
Assessment of the Relative Risk to Public
Health From Foodborne Listeria monocytogenes Among
Selected Categories of Ready-to- Eat Foods;
Request for Comments, Scientific Data and
Information, April 7, 2011
FSIS Notice 59-10: Compositing
of Environmental Samples Collected During
Routine Risk-Based RLm Sampling
FSIS Notice 10-10 Exception for
Certain Products from the RTE Sampling
Programs
FSIS Notice 64-09 Intensified
Verification Testing and 'For Cause' Food
Safety Assessments in Reponse to RTE
Results
Government
Documents
National Health Objectives for
2020
Quantitative
Assessment of Relative Risk to Public Health
from Foodborne Listeria monocytogenes
Among Selected Catagories of RTE Foods
(9/2005)
FDA/CFSAN, USDA/FSIS,
CDC
FSIS
Risk Assessment for Listeria
monocytogenes in Deli Meats (5/2003)
D.
Gallagher, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University and E. Ebel, J. Kause,
USDA/FSIS
Compliance
Guidelines to Control Listeria
monocytogenes in Post-Lethality Exposed RTE
Meat and Poultry Products
(10/2004)
Comments
Draft
FSIS Risk Assessment for Listeria in
Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products
(1/2006)
Correspondence
Notification
and Protocol for New Technology Use of
Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) Ingredients
Individually or in Combination to Prevent
Growth of L. monocytogenes in RTE Meat
and Poultry
Press
Releases/News Stories
Listeria Prevalence in
RTE Meat and Poultry Declines in 2010; 81
Percent Drop Since 2000, August 15,
2011
USDA Releases Semi-Annual
Regulatory Agenda, December 20,
2010
National Health Objectives for
2020 Released, December 3, 2010
FSIS Issues Notice on
Collecting of Environmental Samples During
Risk-Based Listeria Monocytogenes Sampling,
September 11, 2009
AMI Details Industry
Advancements in Listeria Control At FSIS Public
Hearing on Retail Risk Assessment, June 24,
2009
Canada Issues Recommendations
to Enhance Food Safety Following 2008 Listeria
Outbreak, June 22, 2009
FSIS Issues Three Directives
Related to Verification of Listeria Control,
February 4, 2009
Unveils
New Policy to Control Listeria in Food,
February 7, 2008
EFSA Updates EU Scientific
Advice on Listeria Risk in Ready-To-Eat
Foods, January 22, 2008
EFSA
Updates EU Scientific Advice on Listeria
in Foods, January 22, 2008
Expert
Panel Analyzes Risk-Based Approach to
Listeriosis, October 20,
2005
Links
CDC -
FoodNet - Foodborne Diseases Active
Surveillance Network
FSIS
Fact Sheet - Listeria
monocytogenes
AMI Website -
Meatsafety.org