Listeria monocytogenes FSIS Risk Management Strategies

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Listeria monocytogenes FSIS Risk Management
Strategies

• Assessment, Regulation, Cooperation and Outreach
• Heather Hicks Quesenberry

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Regulation

• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
• Food Safety and Inspection Service
• 9 CFR Part 430 Docket No. 97-013F
• RIN 0583-AC46
• Control of Listeria monocytogenes in
  Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products

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Regulation
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS),
under these regulations, requires establishments
that produce RTE meat and poultry products that
are exposed to the environment after lethality
treatments and that support the growth of L.
monocytogenes to have, in their hazard analysis
and critical control point (HACCP) plans, or in
their sanitation standard operating procedures or
other prerequisite programs, controls that
prevent product adulteration by L. monocytogenes.
Additional information http//www.fsis.usda.go
v/OPPDE/rdad/FRPubs/97-013F.htm
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COMPLIANCE GUIDELINES TO CONTROL LISTERIA
MONOCYTOGENES IN POST-LETHALITY EXPOSED
READY-TO-EAT MEAT AND POULTRY PRODUCTS

• Control of Listeria monocytogenes Using Three
  Alternatives
• Alternative 1
• Alternative 2
• Alternative 3
• Enhanced Level of Effectiveness of the
  Post-Lethality
• Treatment and the Antimicrobial Agent or Process
• Expected Minimum Levels of Control for
  Post-lethality Treatments
• and Antimicrobial Agents or Processes
• Labeling
• Production Information Collection
• New Technology Review
• Sanitation Guidelines for Listeria monocytogenes
• General Procedures
• Determining the Effectiveness of Sanitation
  Standard
• Operating

• Procedures (Sanitation SOPs)
• Traffic Control
• Employee Hygiene
• Sanitizers
• Sources and Control of Listeria monocytogenes
• Contamination
• Verifying the Effectiveness of the Sanitation
  Program
• Food Contact Surface and Environmental Testing
• Expected Minimum Frequency of Establishment
  Verification
• Testing of Food Contact Surfaces for Alternatives
  1, 2 and 3
• Testing for Listeria spp. and Listeria-like
  Organism for Food Contact Surface and Other
  Environmental Testing
• Hold-and-Test Scenario
• Sentinel Site Program Example
• Projected Risk-Based Verification Testing Program
  

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Examples of reservoirs and harborages of L.
monocytogenes

• Door handles, Employee shoes
• On-off valves and switches
• Worn or cracked rubber seals around doors
• Vacuum/air pressure pumps, lines, hoses
• Condensate from refrigeration units
• Floors, Standing water
• Ceilings, over-head pipes
• Peelers, slicers, shredders, blenders
• Conveyors, bins, tubs, food containers

• Walk-in cooler walls, shelving and doors
• Roller guards, Hollow rollers on conveyors
• Ice makers
• Air filters
• Drains
• Insulation (wet or moldy)
• Trash cans
• Cracked hoses
• Walls that are cracked, pitted, or covered with
  inadequately sealed surface panels
• Maintenance and cleaning tools

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Whats next?

• What is happening downstream from FSIS plants?
  Retail microenvironment?
• State programs - Education and outreach to
  inspectors and operators

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Cooperative Actions

• USDA-FSIS works collaboratively with its partners
  in the food safety industry as well as federal
  and state agencies, such as FDA and CDC, and
  international groups in efforts to better
  understand and combat the threat to public health
  from Listeria monocytogenes.

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• Cooperative projects involving over 60 U.S. food
  safety agencies to analyze data on Listeria
  monocytogenes collected in RTE food at retail.
• Cutting edge studies on the prevalence of
  Listeria monocytogenes in RTE food at retail
  conducted with consortium of leading American
  research universities.
• CFP Committee on Listeria
• Codex Committee on Listeria

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Outreach and Education
Materials Available at www.fsis.usda.gov Listeri
osis and Food Safety Tips Pregnant Women and
Food Safety- Listeriosis and Pregnancy What Is
Your Risk? USDA Advice on Preventing Illness
from Listeria a video for consumers

FSIS Meat and Poultry Hotline [phone]
www.fsis.usda.gov
Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
www.foodsafety.gov
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• As a public health agency, FSIS continues to
  work to inform decision makers, both industry and
  consumers, as well as regulators as to how best
  to limit the impact of Listeria monocytogenes in
  meat, poultry and egg products.

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Thank you.