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NEWS Focused on beef safety regulations At a Wednesday morning session during PROCESS EXPO, James Marsden, Ph.D., Regents Distinguished Professor, Food Safety and Security, Kansas State Univ., and senior science advisor for the North American Meat Processors Association, and Mohammad Koohmarie, Ph.D., CEO of the Meat Division, IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group, discussed food safety in beef with a focus on E. coli O157:H7 and other Non-O157:H7 STECs. They pointed out that in an attempt to protect public safety, the US Dept. of Agriculture recently added six serogroups of non-O157:H7 shigatoxin producing E. coli (nSTEC) that will be considered adulterants in non-intact raw beef, including ground beef and tenderized steaks. will test beef trim used in ground beef production for the six serogroups of STECs and begin enforcing the new policy. USDA plans to ﬁrst focus testing on beef trim production before it is distributed to grinding facilities but it hasn’t ruled out expanding Marsden Koohmarie the program in the The six E. coli serogroups include: future. Several attendees in the auO26, O103, O45, O111, O121 and dience voiced concern USDA will O145. As adulterants, if product rep- eventually add more serogroups to resented by tested samples of raw this program. beef contains any of the six strains “Further processors already have it will not be allowed into commerce effective interventions in place. for sale to consumers. Those who don’t, need to consider Starting March 5, 2012, USDA’s implementing one or more intervenFood Safety and Inspection Service tions,” Marsden said. Oh, what a night! On the evening of Nov. 1, the induction ceremony for the Class of 2011 of the Meat Industry Hall of Fame took place at Chicago’s Union League Club. The dinner and presentation ceremony coincided with PROCESS EXPO. Front row: (L-R), Randy Huffman, accepting on behalf of his father, Dr. Dale Huffman; Dr. Jack Allen; John Story; Steve Becker, accepting on behalf of his father, Clarence Becker; Mel Salomon; and Billy Rosenthal, accepting on behalf of his father, E.M. “Manny” Rosenthal. Back row: (L-R) Phil Clemens, Alan Simon, George Watts and Eldon Roth. 4 • PROCESS EXPO TODAY / Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 • Meat&Poultry

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