On January 4, 2022, the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued the “Raw Pork Products Sampling Program” which will be implemented until January 1, 2023.

This notice is being reissued to inform inspection program personnel (IPP) that sampling under the Raw Pork Products Sampling Program will continue. All raw pork samples will continue to be analyzed for Salmonella and for aerobic counts (AC), which serve as indicator organisms. These data will be used for policy development, which will include developing new performance standards for Salmonella in raw comminuted pork and intact or non-intact pork cuts. The project codes and sampling instructions to IPP at establishments that produce raw pork products remain unchanged.

FSIS will schedule five (5) samples per month for eligible establishments producing greater than 6,000 pounds of comminuted product and five (5) samples per month for those eligible establishments producing greater than 50,000 pounds per day of pork cuts (intact and non-intact);

For more details, please refer to https://www.fsis.usda.gov/policy/fsis-notice/01-22