There is nothing more essential to meat and poultry safety than properly cooking to destroy vegetative bacterial pathogens of concern and cooling promptly to prevent outgrowth of spore-forming bacterial pathogens.
The key to understanding any foreign Supplier Verification Program is to deconstruct it and look at the parts individually while keeping in mind how they will all fit back together and function.
We checked in again with processors to find out more about how FSMA compliance has affected their operations, costs, and the biggest issues they say that they still face.