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FSIS Risk Assessments Models

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged. FSIS develops chemical and microbial risk assessments and risk-based algorithms to guide agency policy development and resource allocation decisions. Many of these assessments are legally required, along with a cost-benefit analysis, under Executive Order 12866 and the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-354) as the scientific basis for many FSIS food safety policies.

Below is the list of completed risk assessments conducted by FSIS. The respective risk assessment models as well as the background information and reports can also be found via the links below as well as on the FSIS website.

To view the models developed by FSIS you will need to use a program such as a WinZIP to unzip the files and the enable macros in your Excel.

  1. AVIAN INFLUENZA
    1. Draft Interagency Risk Assessment for the Public Health Impact of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) in Poultry, Shell Eggs, and Egg Products
  2. BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE)
    1. 2005 Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Update DATE: Oct 2005
    2. Post-public Comment Model and Supplemental Simulation Results DATE: Dec 2006
  3. Escherichia coli O157:H7
    1. Comparative Risk Assessment for Escherichia coli O157:H7 In Intact (Non-Tenderized) and Non-Intact (Tenderized) Beef  DATE: Mar 2002
    2. Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef  DATE: Sep 2001
  4. READY-TO-EAT MEAT & POULTRY PRODUCTS
    1. Comparative Risk Assessment for Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-eat Meat and Poultry Deli Meats (Mar 2009)
    2. Risk Assessment for Clostridium perfringens in Ready-to-Eat and Partially Cooked Meat and Poultry Products (Sep 2005)
    3. Risk Assessment for the Impact of Lethality Standards on Salmonellosis from Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products (Sep 2005)
    4. Quantitative Assessment of the Relative Risk to Public Health from Foodborne Listeria monocytogenes Among Selected Categories of Ready-to-Eat Foods (Sep 2003)
    5. Risk Assessment for Listeria monocytogenes in Deli Meat (May 2003)
  5. SHELL EGGS & EGG PRODUCTS
    1. Risk Assessment for Salmonella Enteritidis in Shell Eggs and Salmonella spp. in Egg Products (Oct 2005)
    2. Risk Assessment for Salmonella Enteritidis in Eggs and Egg Products (Jun 1998)
  6. RISK-BASED SAMPLING ALGORITHMS
    1. Risk-based Sampling for Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef and Beef Trim (Feb 2008)
    2. FSIS Risk Assessment for Risk-Based Verification Sampling of Listeria monocytogenes (Jun 2007)
  7. POULTRY SLAUGHTER INSPECTION
    1. FSIS Risk Assessment for Guiding Public Health-Based Poultry Slaughter Inspection (Jan 2008)