Fresher Under Pressure Food Safety

HPP is a science-based post-lethality intervention step for ready-to-eat meats. HPP is not merely a surface treatment, but effective throughout the product package, whatever its size or shape. This is especially important to those meat processors producing sliced deli meats, where the risk of re-contamination with harmful pathogens, particularly Listeria monocytogenes, may be greatest.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service published its Interim Final Rule in June 2003, which directs meat processors to declare the food safety protocols they use to control Lm. For more information on regulatory requirements and how HPP can help achieve Alternative One status, see our white paper High-Pressure Processing and the Listeria Interim Final Rule.

FSIS supports the adoption of new technology as an important means of improving the safety of meat, poultry and egg products. Their Compliance Guidelines direct companies to send information about their new technology to the Office of New Technology. Avure responded to the original New Technology Directive earlier in 2003. Our submission of the comprehensive research study by Dr. Ed Ting and Dr. Errol Raghubeer, The Effects of High Hydrostatic Pressure on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Meat Products, resulted in our receipt of a "Letter of No Objection" under the New Technology Directive.

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