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The Potential Consequences of Public Release of Food Safety and Inspection Service Establishment-Specific Data (2011) / Chapter Skim
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... that is responsible for ensuring that meat, poultry, and processed egg products produced domestically or imported into the United States are safe, wholesome, and properly labeled. FSIS's legal authority to perform its regulatory function is derived from four food-safety statutes, namely the Federal Meat Inspection Act (1906)
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... . The statutes underlying FSIS's responsibility for ensuring compliance with federal foodsafety regulations require that FSIS inspection personnel be present on the premises of all facilities that produce meat, poultry, or processed egg products.
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... STATEMENT OF TASK FSIS asked the National Research Council to conduct a study and convene an ad hoc committee to evaluate the effects of making establishment-specific data publicly available on the Internet. The specific statement of task, developed with input from the National Research Council Standing Committee on the Use of Public Health Data in FSIS Food Safety Programs, is as follows: A study committee will examine the potential food-safety benefits and other consequences of making establishment-specific data sets publicly available on the Internet.
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... The secretary of USDA has embraced the administration's initiative and has developed an Open Government Web site 4 and a plan 5 for implementing President Obama's Open Government Initiative; this plan will be updated as decisions are made on how to implement the open government concept effectively. 2 Dated January 21, 2009; published in the Federal Register, Volume 74, No.
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... , NACMCF [the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Committee for Foods] , or other entities with recognized expertise in data management and analysis to improve data accessibility and usefulness for internal as well as external stakeholders." 8 THE COMMITTEE'S APPROACH A 12-member ad hoc committee with expertise in food safety and microbiology, public health, meat and poultry processing, risk assessment, risk communication, statistics, data disclosure, economics, and transparency in governance was convened.
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... Considering the nature of FSIS data, the committee then deliberated on the value of giving the public access to establishment-specific data, focusing on effects on food safety and public health. In this report, the committee shares its findings and conclusions about the benefits and potential adverse unintended consequences of releasing FSIS establishmentspecific data to the public and identifies key issues for consideration in developing a data-release program.
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... 2007. FSIS as a Public Health Regulatory Agency: Regulatory Framework (11/9/07)
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