The assurance that the U.S.’ commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and properly labeled and packaged is entrusted by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). To further ensure safety, the FSIS observes products during the processing, handling, and packaging process to reassure the products are honestly labeled. Being the public healthy agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the FSIS’ main purpose is to protect the public health as well as preventing foodborne illnesses. The FSIS is involved from everything beginning from the food processing to food distribution. Alfred V. Almanza, who is the administrator of the FSIS, asserts in his letter to the reader, that the FSiS is involved in the
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An example of a risk assessment conducted by FSIS was for the “highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. This assessment was intended, as stated by an executive summary given by the FSIS, was initially to “estimate the exposure and potential human illness from the consumption of HPAIV-contaminated poultry, shell eggs and egg products from the index flock” and secondly, if the virus was ever exposed in the U.S, how effective are the FSIS’s strategies to prevent the virus from spreading. Moreover the risk assessment was conducted in order to analyze possible scenarios if the disease would be detected in the …show more content…
In 1862, President Lincoln established the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Appointed chief chemist of the USDA, Harvey W. Wiley dedicated his career in informing the public of conflicts with debased food and had began setting standards for food processing. By the second half of the 1800s, as railroads extended throughout the U.S., trains became equipped with refrigerated rail cars and electricity, which allowed the meatpacking industry to work all year-round. In 1884, President Chester Arthur passed an act, which instituted the USDA Bureau of Animal Industry (BAL). The BAI’s duty was to prevent infected animals from being used as food. Six years later, Benjamin Harrison passed a law that required the inspection of meat products. A year later the law was revised to require the inspection and certification of all to be exported live cattle and beef. After Upton Sinclair’s publication of The Jungle in 1905, the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed, which “prevented adulterated and misbranded food, drugs, liquors, and medicines from being manufactured, sold, or transported.” The Federal Meat Inspection Act was also passed, which ensured that meat products were slaughtered in sanitary conditions and also banned the sale of adulterated and misbranded food to be used for food. In 1912, the BAI began inspecting eggs for the navy. Later on, The Agricultural
An example of a risk assessment conducted by FSIS was for the “highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. This assessment was intended, as stated by an executive summary given by the FSIS, was initially to “estimate the exposure and potential human illness from the consumption of HPAIV-contaminated poultry, shell eggs and egg products from the index flock” and secondly, if the virus was ever exposed in the U.S, how effective are the FSIS’s strategies to prevent the virus from spreading. Moreover the risk assessment was conducted in order to analyze possible scenarios if the disease would be detected in the …show more content…
In 1862, President Lincoln established the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Appointed chief chemist of the USDA, Harvey W. Wiley dedicated his career in informing the public of conflicts with debased food and had began setting standards for food processing. By the second half of the 1800s, as railroads extended throughout the U.S., trains became equipped with refrigerated rail cars and electricity, which allowed the meatpacking industry to work all year-round. In 1884, President Chester Arthur passed an act, which instituted the USDA Bureau of Animal Industry (BAL). The BAI’s duty was to prevent infected animals from being used as food. Six years later, Benjamin Harrison passed a law that required the inspection of meat products. A year later the law was revised to require the inspection and certification of all to be exported live cattle and beef. After Upton Sinclair’s publication of The Jungle in 1905, the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed, which “prevented adulterated and misbranded food, drugs, liquors, and medicines from being manufactured, sold, or transported.” The Federal Meat Inspection Act was also passed, which ensured that meat products were slaughtered in sanitary conditions and also banned the sale of adulterated and misbranded food to be used for food. In 1912, the BAI began inspecting eggs for the navy. Later on, The Agricultural