John Munsell asks, And . . . What role does pathogen testing play in true HACCP?
His opinion is that Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), that was designed to ensure food product safety, has been compromised to shift responsibility from hegemonic raw meat companies to smaller food producers.
Dr Pat Basu comments at bottom:
(9)…I strongly believe that consumers and the industry, especially the small and medium-sized industry operations, also need to understand that, although FSIS lab results are considered “official”, there are enough errors in multiple processes in the FSIS labs that can be shown in a court of law to render these results invalid. Therefore, the industry must make the effort to verify all FSIS lab results before any major expense is undertaken by the industry prior to a “voluntary” recall based on what may be a fictitious or inaccurate result.
That’s got to be labs accredited to ISO 17025 that supposedly assures the validity of results.
ISOwatch 