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Comparative Risk Assessment for Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-eat Meat and Poultry Deli Meats
Published: Mar 2009
In an effort to understand better the sources of foodborne Listeria infection, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), working collaboratively, developed a quantitative risk assessment for L. monocytogenes that compared the risk of listeriosis among twenty-three categories of ready-to-eat (RTE) foods. The results of the risk assessment, completed in 2003, indicated deli meats pose the greatest risk for listeriosis, accounting for approximately 1,600 illnesses per year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service funded the National Alliance for Food Safety and Security (NAFSS) – a consortium of twenty-five research universities – to conduct a four-state study in which prepackaged deli meat and deli meat sliced and packaged at retail were analyzed for the prevalence and level of L. monocytogenes (Draughon 2006). Data from the NAFSS study, described in Appendix I of the risk assessment report, were used as inputs to the deli meat exposure pathway developed as part of the abovementioned 2003 FDA-FSIS risk assessment for Listeria in ready-to-eat foods.
- Executive Summary
- Report (986kb)
- Model (XLS files in ZIP archive)
- Response to Peer Review Comments
- Federal Register Notice
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