date:Jun 01, 2012
The ruling will see the testing of ground beef products for the seven relevant STEC strains, which include O26, O103, O111, O121, O45, O145 as well as the more common O157.
The FSIS, which is a division of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), posted a Federal Register notice on its website to confirm the implementation of the new rule.
Initial plans for the implementation of the routine sampling began in September 2011, when the proposal was met with criticism by the US meat industry and