WASHINGTON — USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service has announced that, effective Sept. 21, it is eliminating its domestic egg products sampling program known as EGGDOM.
The EGGDOM sampling program analyzes domestic pasteurized liquid egg products bearing shelf-life claims for the presence of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm).
FSIS will continue to collect samples of dried, frozen and liquid pasteurized egg products under its Egg Monitoring (EM) sampling projects and test them for both salmonella and Lm.
Additionally, FSIS will begin co-analyzing imported egg products samples under its imported egg products sampling program (EGGIMP).
To ensure that pasteurized, ready-to. . .