Consumer Expectations and Issues Regarding Microbiological Testing Programs for E. coli O157:H7

1. Consumer Expectations and Issues Regarding Microbiological Testing Programs for E. coli O157:H7 October 2008 Presented by Felicia Nestor. Food and Water Watch

2. This material represents the views of the following members of the Safe Food Coalition: Center for Science in the Public Interest Consumer Federation of America Food & Water Watch Safe Tables Our Priority United Food and Commercial Workers Union

5. Increased sampling by the government and industry is recommended in the context of the development, by FSIS, of a comprehensive program designed to trace contamination back to its source, which will be discussed in the last section. Increased sampling by the government and industry is recommended in the context of the development, by FSIS, of a comprehensive program designed to trace contamination back to its source, which will be discussed in the last section.

7. �Smaller� refers NOT to the HACCP category �small� or �very small� but to those plant which would not realistically be able to devise these plans, without hardship, on their own. �Smaller� refers NOT to the HACCP category �small� or �very small� but to those plant which would not realistically be able to devise these plans, without hardship, on their own.

8. This will be discussed further in the final section of this presentation.This will be discussed further in the final section of this presentation.

9. American National Standards Institute.American National Standards Institute.