Food Safety
Visual Carcass Inspection
Here’s a good general approach to inspecting a carcass for visible contamination and the preventative action needed to avoid or correct inspection failure.
Food Safety
Shelf Stability Tool
Use this Shelf Stability Predictor to measure the probability of LM or Staph growing on your shelf-stable meat products.
Equipment
Grinder Maintenance to Ensure Food Safety
Use this resource as a reminder of good meat grinder sanitation and inspection habits to maintain food safety for your customers.
Food Safety
Best Practices for Pathogen Testing
Use this resource as a smart addition to a beef processing plant’s overall food safety system.
Food Safety
International Allergen Labeling Guide
The Food Allergy Research and Resource Program (FARRP) has pulled together an international online interactive map and chart to help with allergen labeling regulations.
Food Safety
Meat Questions? Ask USDA!
If you or your customers have any questions about the meat you offer from your counter, look no further than Ask.USDA.gov.
Food Safety
Your Allergen Control Plan
To protect your business and keep customers safe, here is a fundamental framework to build your own Allergen Control Plan.
Customer Resources
Best Meat Thawing
Use this pdf to remind your customers about the safest ways to prepare meat for cooking.
Customer Resources
Keeping Customers Safe
Give your meat and poultry purchasers the basic guidelines necessary to eat healthy and stay safe.
Food Safety
Code Dating and Rework
Update your knowledge of spoilage bacteria vs. harmful bacteria, different expiration dating systems, and the true impact of reworking processed meat.
Food Safety
Safety for Small Plants
This USDA-FSIS website portal helps smaller meat plants produce flexible, more efficient and HACCP compliant food safety protocol.
Food Safety
How to Become a USDA Federally Inspected Facility
In this interview with Dr. Lynn Delmore, a Meat Scientist and Food Safety Consultant, you’ll get first-hand advice about obtaining and maintaining a USDA certification.