潜水简报:
- Wal-Mart's four-step chicken safety plan demonstrates how suppliers can improve their poultry policies to reduce the instance of salmonella.
- The retailer started working with suppliers on more stringent food safety requirements in December 2014, and as of June, has reduced instances of positive salmonella tests from 17% of its chicken parts to 2%.
- Wal-Mart instituted these changes for its own chicken supplies, but those suppliers produce 80% of all chickens sold in the U.S. The impact stretches across the entire industry and to consumers beyond Wal-Mart shoppers.
潜入洞察力：
With Wal-Mart's poultry safety policies, the USDA's new standards and new Food and Drug Administration requirements, this year could be a tipping point in the industry's battle to reduce salmonella contaminations and outbreaks, Robert Tauxe, director of the CDC's Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, said during a presentation at the annual conference of the International Association for Food Protection.
Wal-Mart's four-part plan includes p紫罗米的饲养员股票干预措施降低肉鸡羊驼植入垂直沙门氏菌的风险;生物控制措施和疾病预防的最佳实践，例如肉鸡/饲养员群的疫苗;旨在使污染整个鸡的沙门氏菌细菌数量小10,000倍，鸡零件较小10倍。
Poultry suppliers have also adjusted to meet new safety requirements the USDA set this past February. The联邦家禽安全标准aim减少沙门氏菌和campylobacter in ground chicken and turkey products and in raw chicken breasts, legs and wings. Chicken accounts for about 19% of foodborne illness deaths, according to the CDC, so any reduction from chicken parts and products could significantly impact these statistics.
This is on top of all of the industrywide changes manufacturers are making toprepare for the FDA's new requirementsunder the Food Safety Modernization Act. The first compliance deadline for large manufacturers is just a month away, but the FDA is still training inspectors, who may not begin surveying facilities until January.
