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VT Directive 10010.1 22-23 STEC Sampling Program
This sampling program is part of VT Agency of Agriculture’s raw product verification sampling program, and is a means of sampling non-intact beef or intact raw beef product intended to produce non-intact beef. VAAFM tests all raw beef samples collected under the routine and follow-up sampling programs for E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, and for non-O157 STEC serogroups (O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145) to help ensure the protection of public health.
VT Directive 10240.3 Vermont Ready to Eat Sampling Programs
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.
VT Directive 10240.4 rev. 4 LISTERIA RULE VERIFICATION ACTIVITIES
VAAFM verification of establishment compliance with Listeria controls is an important food safety verification activity that supports VAAFM’s food safety and public health goals. This directive provides instructions for inspection program personnel (IPP) to verify that establishments that produce post-lethality exposed Ready-to-Eat (RTE) products control Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) through a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan or prevent Lm through a Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure (Sanitation SOP) or other prerequisite program. This directive also includes instructions for verifying RTE products that are not post-lethality exposed (e.g., cook-in-bag) are properly classified.
AGCWIP Request for Proposals
State Fiscal Year 2023 Agricultural Clean Water Initiative Request for Proposals