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FSIS Data: Analysis and Reporting, Continued
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Inspection and Enforcement Activity
FSIS routinely assesses inspection data to evaluate potential trends and to ensure
that inspection procedures are conducted in a timely, appropriate, and effective
manner. FSIS also generates several routine reports which highlight, at a high
level, Agency inspection activities.
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Domestic Establishments and Import Facilities
FSIS routinely evaluates data on FSIS regulated domestic establishments and
port-of-entry and audit results for foreign countries that import meat, poultry,
and processed egg products to evaluate potential trends and to ensure that FSIS
activities are conducted in a timely, appropriate, and effective manner.
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Policy Analysis and Impact
FSIS routinely evaluates the effectiveness of policies issued by the Agency to
ensure that FSIS policy is meaningful, responsive to changing events and science,
and based on the best available information. For example, FSIS periodically reviews inspection
data from regulated establishments after the implementation of a new policy to
determine if potential trends exist in noncompliances over time. This allows FSIS
to determine whether the new policy produced the change sought when it was issued.
FSIS also seeks to estimate the potential public health impact of future policies. For
example, FSIS performed an assessment of the new Salmonella and Campylobacter
performance standards issued by the Agency in July 2011 to determine how many foodborne illnesses
could be avoided through the implementation of the new policy.
Moving forward, FSIS is
also developing current and intended risk mitigation strategies to help the Agency better
predict the public health impact of new policies. These new strategies will allow FSIS
to better predict foodborne illness reductions, allowing for an improved, targeted
approach to public health goal setting. Examples of these analyses are posted below.
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Foodborne Illness Attribution
Foodborne illness attribution is defined as the allocation of foodborne illnesses to
specific food products. FSIS currently estimates attribution fractions, or the
fraction of foodborne illnesses associated with a particular food product, using
the CDC's Electronic Foodborne Outbreak Reporting System (e-FORS) and the National
Outbreak Reporting System (NORS), which contains information about the food item
responsible for the outbreak.
FSIS’ methodology for estimating foodborne illness attribution for FSIS-regulated
products is described below, along with several supporting documents highlighting the
history of attribution. FSIS is also a founding member of the Interagency Food Safety Analytics
Collaboration (IFSAC), a high-level CDC,
FDA, and FSIS workgroup formed in 2011 to investigate
new attribution methods and develop a harmonized approach across all three agencies. Information
about IFSAC is included below as well.
- Current FSIS Attribution Methodology
- Historical Attribution Information
- IFSAC Information
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FSIS Pathogen Verification Testing, FSIS Baselines and
Reports, and U.S. National Residue Program
FSIS conducts routine pathogen verification testing of regulated products. This testing allows FSIS to monitor the
effectiveness, where applicable, of
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)
programs and assess, and minimize the risk to the public's health from contaminated products.
FSIS views results from verification samples from federal establishments as the best
indicator of the overall trend of the presence of pathogens in regulated products.
For this reason the Agency uses the percentage of positives in these samples as one of
its key performance measures. Traditionally, FSIS publicly reports the results of this
testing as the percent of all samples that test positive for a particular pathogen. These reports are available on the FSIS website at:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Science/
Microbiology/index.asp.
The U.S. National Residue Program (NRP) is a collaborative interagency program established
to protect the public from exposure to harmful levels of chemical residues in meat, poultry,
and egg products produced or imported into the United States. The NRP is designed:
- to provide a structured process for identifying and evaluating chemical compounds of concern in food animals;
- to analyze chemical compounds of concern;
- to collect and report results, and
- to identify the need for regulatory follow-up when violative levels of chemical residues are found.
FSIS, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Health and Human
Services Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are the federal agencies primarily involved in
managing this program. Since 1967, FSIS has administered the U.S. NRP by collecting
samples from meat, poultry, and egg products and analyzing the samples at one of three FSIS
laboratories. FSIS also maintains and posts a Residue
Repeat Violators List,
which contains information to help establishments, Livestock Markets, and inspection
program personnel identify residue history of producers.
Sampling Programs. FSIS also produces a number of comprehensive reports related to the Agency's sampling programs. These
reports allow FSIS to publicly share information about the Agency's' sampling programs, discuss the statistical
and policy basis for these programs and future changes to develop new programs and modify existing programs.
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