Notice 26 Feb 2025 meat industry, regulatory compliance, recordkeeping, food safety, department of agriculture, business operations

🍖Compliance Requirements for Food Safety in Meat Industry

The Department of Agriculture announces a comment request for OMB review involving information collection requirements related to food safety. This includes applications for the Accredited Laboratory program and mandatory record-keeping for businesses processing raw beef products to ensure compliance with food safety regulations. These regulations aim to protect public health and improve the integrity of meat supply chains.

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Regulatory Requirements, Compliance 17 Jan 2025 compliance, usda, poultry, food safety, retained water, meat industry

🍗New FSIS Guidelines for Retained Water in Meat and Poultry Products

FSIS is announcing updates to and responding to comments on its guideline to assist meat (including Siluriformes fish and fish products) and poultry establishments in meeting the regulatory requirements for calculating the correct retained water percentage in raw livestock, poultry, and Siluriformes fish carcasses and parts resulting from post-evisceration processing. FSIS is providing clarification based on arithmetic errors commonly encountered in protocol reviews.

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