Zdrowie i gospodarka · 13/08/1999

Egg Safety Action Plan; Public Meeting

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are announcing a public meeting to discuss the development of an action plan to address the presence of Salmonella enteritidis (SE) in shell eggs and egg products using a farm-to-table approach. The purpose of the action plan is: To promote the implementation of existing technologies, to control and prevent, to the extent possible, the presence of pathogens, particularly SE, in shell eggs and egg products, in order to reduce the incidence of foodborne illness; to examine alternative regulatory inspection structures to better coordinate the government's egg safety efforts from farm-to- table; to change, through education, unsafe egg handling practices by producers, distributors, retailers, and consumers, in part, by eliminating temperature abuse as required by FDA's proposed and USDA's final rules; and to identify and develop new technologies to ensure safer shell eggs and egg products through research. FDA and FSIS have established public dockets to receive comments about the egg safety action plan.