My CEO was at a food show in Chicago this week and she hear that the FDA is starting testing ice cream for Salmonella. Has anyone hear that yet. I am working for a small ice cream plant.
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 10:55 AM
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 11:06 AM
My CEO was at a food show in Chicago this week and she hear that the FDA is starting testing ice cream for Salmonella. Has anyone hear that yet. I am working for a small ice cream plant.
Do you mean more often than they have presumably been testing for it for many years ?
Actually i thought that statistically L.monocytogenes was regarded as a more significant hazard in ice cream ? Just speculating.
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 12:07 PM
We are testing for L. Monocytogenes. Currently we are not testing for Salmonella.
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 12:16 PM
We are testing for L. Monocytogenes. Currently we are not testing for Salmonella.
By "we" do you mean FDA ? Seems unlikely.
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 12:50 PM
Probably a follow on from the Cadbury's salmonella outbreak. I worked in a factory making Mondolez brand ice cream and every batch was tested for salmonella. We provided 8 pots and the lab made a composite sample for testing. A bit of a pain, but a customer requirement!
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 01:10 PM
The Plant is testing for listeria with Swab testing.
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 01:24 PM
The Plant is testing for listeria with Swab testing.
Hi hokey,
I presume you have a Product Specification for yr ice cream.
I anticipate that it includes non-detection of Salmonella in X gram.
IMEX Producers carry out routine micro.testing to verify their Product Specification. Some reasons - (a) HACCP verification, (b) Commercial "Self-protection", (c) Customer request, (d) Private Standard certification.
Perhaps you meant that you only do in-house swab testing for Listeria together with external micro. lab testing for XYZ ?.
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 02:10 PM
Our in-house test we do is ATP.
The swab that we are doing we send them out to a lab to be testing for Listeria
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Posted 07 April 2017 - 05:37 PM
Perhaps this will help
www.fda.gov/downloads/ICECI/Inspections/IOM/UCM123523.pdf
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Posted 08 April 2017 - 12:08 AM
Hi scampi,
It's a nice document but the sampling density for Salmonella is unreal for normal users. Supported by ICMSF and makes statistical sense but is logistically in Lulu Land.
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