FSIS Risk Assessment for Risk-Based Verification Sampling of 'Listeria monocytogenes.'

摘要

Risk assessment evaluates and measures risk to determine priorities and to enable identification of appropriate level of risk management. FSIS is committed to using a risk assessment approach in its regulatory programs. The 2003 FSIS L. monocytogenes Risk Assessment evaluated the risk of listeriosis from RTE meat and poultry products and defined those factors that could be used to calculate the relative risk of a particular RTE product versus another. When the Agency determined that verification sampling should be risk-based, these factors were used to build an algorithm that allocates sampling resources according to a risk ranking of establishments. This risk-based verification sampling is a further evolution of the formal risk assessment presented by the Agency in 2003. The individual establishments likelihood of producing L. monocytogenes-contaminated product is assessed on a monthly basis and Agency resources are allocated based on that relative risk.