Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, respectively, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) prescribe initial and final pathogen performance standards for raw meat and raw poultry, and meat and poultry products processed in establishments inspected under such Acts; (2) identify, and publish a list of, such pathogens; (3) initiate pathogen surveys to determine existing levels of meat and poultry contamination; and (4) perform microbial compliance testing at such establishments, and prohibit non-complying establishments from labeling such products as "inspected and passed."
Directs the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee for Microbiology Criteria for Foods.
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Mar 14, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Mar 14, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1936)