WASHINGTON — USDA's Office of Inspector General has issued several recommendations to improve the way that USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service monitors the safety of turkey products production.
The OIG's objective, contained in a report titled FSIS Ground Turkey Inspection and Safety Protocols, was to review FSIS' inspection of ground turkey, including sampling and testing protocols and to evaluate the effectiveness of the program.
The OIG found that in the three turkey plants that participated in the Salmonella Initiative Program (SIP) either did not increase pathogen sampling when they exceeded the allowable number of salmonella positive test. . .
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