For use beginning 12/28/2022
A. VAAFM product sampling for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) and Salmonella are important food safety verification activities that support VAAFM’s food safety and public health goals. This directive provides instructions to inspection program personnel (IPP) to collect and submit ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry product samples to the laboratory and, when appropriate, to take enforcement action in response to positive test results. Instructions concerning Lm verification activities other than sampling and responses to positive results are contained in VT Directive 10,240.4, Listeria Rule Verification Activities.
B. This program is the VT Agency of Agriculture’s Ready to Eat (RTE) product verification sampling program, and is a means of sampling RTE products for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) and Salmonella, and FCS and environmental surfaces within the plant for Lm. Post-lethality exposed and non-exposed RTE products are subject to sampling, based on both risk and random sampling.
A. VAAFM product sampling for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) and Salmonella are important food safety verification activities that support VAAFM’s food safety and public health goals. This directive provides instructions to inspection program personnel (IPP) to collect and submit ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry product samples to the laboratory and, when appropriate, to take enforcement action in response to positive test results. Instructions concerning Lm verification activities other than sampling and responses to positive results are contained in VT Directive 10,240.4, Listeria Rule Verification Activities.
B. This program is the VT Agency of Agriculture’s Ready to Eat (RTE) product verification sampling program, and is a means of sampling RTE products for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) and Salmonella, and FCS and environmental surfaces within the plant for Lm. Post-lethality exposed and non-exposed RTE products are subject to sampling, based on both risk and random sampling.
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