The USDA Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) recently published a guidance document on the pre-harvest control of E. coli. You can read it here.
In this document FSIS recommends that slaughter establishment receive cattle from beef producers that implemented one or more documented pre-harvest management practices.
The details of the pre-harvest interventions USDA-FSIS documents are absolutely in [...]
New guidance from USDA on Pre-harvest E. coli Control
More Research (This time from USDA researchers) Supports VeriPrime Cattlemen
A USDA study that was published in “Meat Science” concludes that preventing E. coli in cattle will make beef safer. The authors are from the USDA research center at Clay Center, Nebraska and they studied the effect of cattle shedding high levels of the bacteria. They conclude that reducing the number of cattle shedding at [...]
Transparency
My daughter is leaving for the state FFA convention today. She is singing in the choir and I am sure she will have fun and represent her chapter well. As I think about all the young people that represent the future of agriculture gathering, I find myself thinking about their future and the future of [...]
New Research Supports VeriPrime Cattlemen
The cattlemen that have joined VeriPrime and said yes to working on eliminating E. coli in beef have believed from the beginning that reducing E. coli in cattle will result in reduced contamination of beef. The scientific community agrees and a recently published research paper adds to the support for the ideals of the VeriPrime Food Safety [...]
VeriPrime Prevention Plan
It is the beginning of April and that marks the beginning of what has been called E. coli season. It seemed like a good time to talk about how we can work toward the goal of eliminating this food safety threat.
If this year is like recent years over the next weeks and months, you will [...]
Two Traceability Discussions
Over the last two days, two real professionals have written about traceability on their blogs.
Dr Richard Raymond writes about a bill that Sen. John Tester of Montana introduced and the real life implications it will have to improve beef safety. He cites an example from when he was undersecretary for food safety at the United [...]
AMI Statement on Beef Safety
Last night the American Meat Institute (AMI) released a statement on the safety of beef. You can read the statement here.
AMI makes great points that improving prevention protocols will do more to eliminate E. coli than adding more inspection steps with more regulations. AMI said that the pathogenic bacteria respond to science-based interventions not regulations. [...]
The truth about cows
This post is not about food safety but it is about meat and milk and the unfair treatment of cattle in the press over the last decade. In addition to making better beef, part of what we hope to do is help you cut through the rhetoric and learn the truth about where your food comes from [...]
A Good History Lesson
When the public health officials began, what eventually became a huge public health success, of eliminating TB in milk they used a multiple hurdle approach that is very similar to the approach that VeriPrime is proposing to eliminate E. coli in beef.
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