Listeria Policy and Actions

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Listeria monocytogenes Assessment Team, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Assessing the Effectiveness of the "Listeria monocytogenes" Interim Final Rule: Summary Report Report regarding the effectiveness of aspects of the Listeria monocytogenes interim final rule. Includes findings and recommendations related to verification sampling, labeling and consumer education, retail, public health, economic impact, training, and small plant guidance and a discussion of accomplishments. Attachments include "Listeria Assessment Aspects" and "Project Assessment Team Reports". (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004	Dec 1, 2004
	Huss, H.H.; Ababouch, L.; Gram, L.	Assessment and Management of Seafood Safety and Quality Report on risk assessment and management issues associated with seafood. Includes discussion of world seafood production and consumption, food safety systems, hazard identification and characterization, and risk management strategies such as HACCP, FSOs, microbiological criteria, traceability, and more. Appendices include "Assessment of Food Safety Programmes," "Hazard Analysis Worksheet," "HACCP Plan Form," and "Generic HACCP Plan for the Production and Processing of Oysters". (more) Publication Year: 2003	Nov 18, 2004
	Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Availability of FSIS Form 10,240-1--Production Information on Post-Lethality Exposed Ready-to-Eat Products Notice regarding a form to collect information about ready-to-eat products as part of FSIS's efforts to address post-lethality contamination of ready-to-eat products with Listeria monocytogenes. Questions and answers about the form are available from FSIS. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2004	Sep 22, 2004
	Partnership for Food Safety Education	BAC Down! Information about the BAC Down! campaign to encourage consumers to keep refrigerators at 40° F or below and to monitor fridge temperature with a thermometer. The campaign is in response to findings in the revised CFSAN/FSIS Listeria monocytogenes risk assessment. (more)	Jun 1, 2005
	Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products Access to this interim final rule published in 68 FR 34207 (June 6, 2003), comments on the interim final rule, and related documents. The comment period for this interim final rule has been extended. See 69 FR 70051, available through GPO Access. (more) Publication Date: Friday, June 6, 2003	Dec 8, 2004
	Kyprianou, M.	Draft Commission Regulation of on Microbiological Criteria for Foodstuffs (Text with EEA Relevance) Draft European Commission regulation regarding microbiological criteria for certain microorganisms in foods, including food safety criteria and process hygiene criteria. Microorganisms or toxins covered include Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, staphylococcal enterotoxins, Enterobacter sakazakii, E. coli, histamine, and more. (more) Deadline: Monday, December 5, 2005 Publication Year: 2005	Dec 5, 2005
	Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Draft FSIS Microbiological Hazard Identification Guide for Meat and Poultry Components of Products Produced by Very Small Plants Guide on microbiological hazard identification for very small plant operators that was developed in consultation with the Meat and Poultry Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods. It includes descriptions of pathogens of concern, guidance tables on the hazards in various process categories for products, and more. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999	Jun 18, 2004
	Food and Drug Administration/Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Healthy People 2010 Focus Area Data Progress Review: Focus Area 10: Food Safety: Challenges, Barriers, Strategies and Opportunities Review of progress in Healthy People 2010 Focus Area 10: Food Safety. Includes discussion of reducing foodborne illness, Campylobacter, E. coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, Cyclospora cayetanensis, postdiarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome, Toxoplasma gondii, outbreak reduction, preventing antimicrobial resistant Salmonella, reducing deaths from food allergies, consumer and food employee food safety behavior, and organophosphate pesticide residues. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2004	Jun 18, 2004
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration/Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Listeria monocytogenes: Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Meeting Agenda and Presentations College Park, MD: Agenda and presentations from this public meeting to discuss the Listeria monocytogenes risk assessment and risk management plans. Presentations available online include: Listeria monocytogenes: The Burden of Illness and the Public Health Challenge/Tauxe, Robert; Risk Assessment: Approach and Structure/Whiting, Richard; Risk Assessment: Results and Conclusions/Buchanan, Robert; FDA/CDC Risk Management Action Plan/Kvenberg, John; FSIS Risk Management Plan/Engeljohn, Daniel. (more) Event Date: Thursday, December 4, 2003 Publication Month: December 2003	Nov 12, 2003
	Food and Drug Administration	Listeria Monocytogenes; Petition To Establish a Regulatory Limit Notice and call for data, information, or comments regarding a petition to have a regulatory limit on the levels of Listeria monocytogenes in certain foods. (more) Deadline: Monday, August 9, 2004 Publication Date: Monday, May 24, 2004	Jun 4, 2004
	Doyle, M. Ellin	Literature Survey of the Various Techniques Used in Listeria Intervention Review of the literature on Listeria intervention techniques. Sections include "Organic Acids," "Other Preservatives," "Bacteriocins," "Thermal Processes," "Irradiation," "Modified Atmosphere Packaging," "High Pressure," "Pulsed Electric Fields and Electrolyzed Oxidizing Water," "Ultraviolet Light," and "Ultrasound". (more) Publication Month: November 1999	May 7, 2003
	Beaulieu, Raymond D.	Program Information Manual: Retail Food Safety: Date Marking of Cheese This document is an interpretation of the need to date mark all cheeses as described in the Food Code Section 3-501.17. It specifies which cheeses are and are not exempt to the date marking provisions in the Food Code, based on their potential for supporting the growth of L. monocytogenes and other foodborne pathogens. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999	Aug 7, 2002
	Germany, prepared for the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene, Thirty-fifth Session	Proposed Draft Guidelines for the Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Foods (at Step 3 of the Procedure) This document discusses proposed guidelines for the risk management of Listeria monocytogenes in foods. Sections include "Consideration of the Results of the Microbiological Risk Assessment," "Risk Management Options," "Guidelines for Managing of L. monocytogenes in Food Production," and more. Annexes include "Initial Risk Management Activities" and "Explanation of the L. monocytogenes Decision Tree" and there is an explanatory note entitled "Establishment of Sampling Plans for Microbiological Safety Criteria for Foods in International Trade". (more) Publication Month: October 2002	Apr 14, 2004
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Reducing the Risk of Listeria monocytogenes: FDA/CDC 2003 Update of the Listeria Action Plan Action plan for reducing the risk of illness and death from Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods. The plan is an update of the 2001 Action Plan, based on the 2003 risk assessment of L. monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods. (more) Publication Month: November 2003	Dec 4, 2003
	Committee on Food Hygiene, Codex Alimentarius Commission	Report of the Thirty-Fourth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene Report of the 34th session of the CCFH, held in Bangkok, Thailand on October 8-13, 2001. It includes as Appendix IV the "Proposed Draft Guidelines for the Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Foods?(at Step 2 of the Procedure)," which describes risk management considerations given the results of risk assessments for Listeria monocytogenes in foods. There is also a discussion of the difference between "risk analysis" and "hazard analysis," suggested changes to the "Draft Code of Hygienic Practice for the Primary Production and Packaging of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables," and suggested changes to the "Proposed Draft Principles and Guidelines for the Conduct of Microbiological Risk Management." Other appendices include the "Proposed Draft Guidelines for the Application of the HACCP Syestem (At Step 5 of the Procedure)". (more) Publication Year: 2001	Aug 26, 2002

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