While we continue to feel that FDA could have gone further with the final rule than it did, we feel that after four years of careful consideration and research, it was high time to put a stake in the ground and get industry focused on consistent implementation. We look forward to working with FDA in the future on improvement in this area. Our Priority is an independent, non-profit, grassroots organization devoted to victim assistance, public education, and policy advocacy for safe food and public health. Since then, membership has grown to include victims of other pathogenic bacteria from a variety of foods, including a number of unpasteurized juice outbreaks, and their family members, consumers, and concerned members of the public health and public interest communities. S.T.O.P.'s mission is to prevent unnecessary illness or loss of life from foodborne contamination.
Membership is national.