FDA Salmonella
Enteritidis New Rule Facts
- The
new FDA Rule (July 9, 2009, 74 FR 33030) is expected to have an annual
cost of $82 million and prevent an expected 33,450 illnesses due to
SE
annually, at a cost of $2,450 per illness prevented.1
- The
new FDA Rule will provide expected total annual benefits of $580
million resulting
in $498 million in net benefits annually.1
- The
new FDA Rule requirements include:1
−
Chicks
and pullets that come as chicks from breeder flocks must meet USDA's
National
Poultry Improvement Program's standards for "U.S. S.
Enteritidis
Monitored" status or equivalent standards
−
A
biosecurity
program
must be instituted to prevent SE from being transferred from the
environment
into or among poultry houses
−
A
pest and rodent control program must be
implemented to control rodents,
flies and other pests. Rodents and flies have been shown to harbor SE
within
the poultry house environment.
−
Shell
egg producers must conduct environmental testing for SE as an indicator
of
whether SE prevention measures are working effectively, if
1) they
have 3,000 or more laying hens that produce shell eggs for the table
market,
2)They do not sell all their eggs directly to consumers, and, 3) any of
their
eggs that are produced at a particular farm do not receive a treatment
that
achieves at least a 5-log destruction of SE or are processed into egg
products.
−
If
an environmental test is positive for SE, egg testing for SE be
undertaken, and
that, if an egg test is positive, the eggs must be diverted from the
table egg
market
−
Producers
must cleaning and disinfect poultry houses that have had an
environmental
sample or egg test positive for SE before new laying hens are added to
the
house
−
Refrigerated
storage of eggs at the farm
−
Identification
of a person responsible for SE prevention at each farm
−
Shell
egg producers must keep records indicating compliance with environmental
and
egg sampling requirements and results of testing performed and, when
applicable, must also keep records indicating compliance with the egg
diversion
requirements
General
Foodborne Illness Facts2
- A foodborne illness outbreak is
defined as two or more persons
becoming ill after eating the same food. 2
- The CDC estimates that foodborne
illness causes 76 million
illnesses; 325,000 hospitalizations; and 5,000 deaths each year in the
US. 2
- Both local and federal health
officials have systems in place for
monitoring and investigating foodborne illness. 2
Sources:
1
FDA website: http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/Product-SpecificInformation/EggSafety/EggSafetyActionPlan/ucm056862.htm
2 FDA
website: http://www.fda.gov/food/foodsafety/foodborneillness/foodborneillnessfoodbornepathogensnaturaltoxins/badbugbook/ucm070064.htm