Lecture 29 10/23/24 Flashcards
What is the primary responsibility of USDA FSIS?
ensure US commercial supply of meat, poultry, egg products, and catfish is safe, wholesome, and properly labeled
What are the characteristics of imported meat and poultry?
-FSIS conducts overseas evaluations
-all firms must receive FSIS certification
-imports must go through customs and USDA-APHIS inspection
-FSIS does final clearance inspection once in US
What is the role of the agricultural marketing service?
quality and grading of foods
What are the roles of APHIS?
-antimicrobial resistance monitoring
-animal health monitoring
-food security
What is managed by food and nutrition services?
-food stamps
-WIC
-school lunch program
What does the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition oversee?
-fish and shellfish
-produce
-milk
-canned foods
-infant formula
-juices
-bottled water
-shell eggs
What does the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine oversee?
-animal drugs
-animal feeds
-animal drug residue tolerances
What are the roles of the EPA?
-maintain municipal water supply
-follow Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act
-register and set tolerances for pesticides in food
What responsibilities do the states assume in terms of food?
-retail
-food-service
-distribution
-beach closures
-recreational fish consumption advisories
What are the responsibilities of the CDC?
-disease surveillance
-outbreak investigation
-public health recommendations (no authority)
What is the role of the NIH?
basic and clinical research
How do the FDA, EPA, and FSIS work together?
-FDA establishes drug residue tolerances
-EPA establishes pesticide tolerances
-FSIS monitors residues and reports violations to FDA or EPA
What are the steps of an outbreak investigation?
-detect a possible outbreak
-define and find cases
-generate hypotheses about likely sources
-test hypotheses
-find point of contamination
-control outbreak
-decide when outbreak is over
