# Presentation: 723783

## Daniel Engeljohn 
USDA, FSIS
May 9, 2001

- USDA, FSIS
- May 9, 2001

**Processed Meat and Poultry****Proposed Rule ****_________________**** *****Listeria monocytogenes*****and*****Listeria spp.***

**Notes:**
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## Docket Information

**Performance Standards for the Production of Processed Meat and Poultry Products; Proposed Rule**
**66 FR 12589, February 27, 2001**
**Comment closing date extended; now due June 28, 2001**

**Docket Information**

**Notes:**
Extension of comment period closing date:
 Originally closed on May 29,2001
 Extended to June 28, 2001( 66 FR 19102, April 13, 2001)

## Proposed Testing for Listeria spp.

**Either control via HACCP**
** ****Identify *****Listeria monocytogenes *****as a hazard  **** reasonably likely to occur after lethality  **** treatment but before final packaging**
**Or test food contact surfaces via Sanitation SOP’s for *****Listeria spp.***
*** *****Mandatory frequency**
- 		**Large****	****--     4 tests/line/month**
**	****	****Small ****	****--     2 tests/line/month**
**	****Very Small****	****--     1 test/line/month**

**Proposed Testing for *****Listeria spp******.***

**Notes:**
Test product contact surface on which product is handled after lethality treatment but before final packaging

 Large plant -- 500 or more employees
 Small plant -- 10 to 499 employees
 Very small plant -- fewer than 10 employees or annual sales of ready-to-eat products less than $2.5 million

 See the preamble (section V.  Listeria monocytogenes) for a more complete discussion (66 FR 12602-12605).

## Proposed Testing for Listeria spp.

**Results of *****Listeria spp., *****testing used to verify Sanitation SOP’s**
** ****Preventing direct contamination or adulteration of product**
** ****Results must be made available to FSIS for review**

**Proposed Testing for *****Listeria spp******.***

**Notes:**
 See the preamble (section V.  Listeria monocytogenes) for a more complete discussion (66 FR 12602-12605).

## Proposed Testing for Listeria monocytogenes

**Positive test result**
** ****Establishments must take corrective actions under 9 CFR 416.15 (a) and (b) to determine and demonstrate that the affected lot or lots are not adulterated with *****Listeria monocytogenes:***
** ****Determine which lot or lots affected**
** ****Hold, sample, and test for *****Listeria monocytogenes***
** ****Dispose of affected product**

**Proposed Testing for *****Listeria monocytogenes***

**Notes:**
 See the preamble (section V.  Listeria monocytogenes) for a more complete discussion (66 FR 12602-12605).