FSIS Eliminates Pork Trichinosis Treatment From Meat Inspection Requirements

The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its meat inspection regulations to remove requirements for pork to be treated to destroy trichinae, it said in a final rule. The change applies to both ready-to-eat and non-ready-to-eat pork and pork products, it said. The regulations conflict with FSIS’s hazard analysis and critical control point regulations and are also no longer necessary, FSIS said. In the same final rule, FSIS is also “consolidating the regulations on thermally processed, commercially sterile meat and poultry products (i.e., canned food products containing meat or poultry),” it said. The changes take effect July 30.