How can we better ensure the safety of
the food supply in 2022?
Recently published data have demonstrated there was a reduction in foodborne illness cases in 2020, but can we admit that the beginning of this decade was not much better than the previous two decades when it comes to food safety and foodborne illness prevention? Reflecting on the federal government’s
Healthy People 2010 and 2020 established goals, as a food safety community we have failed to meet the minimum outcomes for more than 20 years.
Healthy People 2030 may be different. Specifically, we have an opportunity to achieve the stated goals regarding Salmonella. This work is urgent, yet the industry and USDA remain slow to modernize poultry Salmonella prevention.
Today’s poultry Salmonella performance standards haven’t been updated since the early 1990s. You read that correctly — the standards haven’t been updated since your phone was plugged into a wall and had a six-foot-long cord attached to it. But we aim to change that.
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