Chemical Hazards, Foodborne Illness Cost Estimates Chief Topics of Upcoming NACMPI Meeting

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS) will host a January 13-14, 2015, public meeting of the National Advisory
Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI) at the Patriot
Plaza III building in Washington, D.C. Topics of discussion at the meeting will
include (i) FSIS’s identification and management of chemical hazards within
the National Residue Program (i.e., contaminants in meat, poultry and egg
products); and (ii) the Economic Research Service’s Cost Calculation Model,
which provides federal agencies with peer-reviewed estimates of the costs of
foodborne illness that can be used to evaluate the effects of federal regulation
and inform policy considerations. See Federal Register, December 24, 2014.

Issue 550