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TABLE 2. Resources for developing microbiological testing programs
General Topic

Preventive
Controls

Document

Link

FDA Draft Guidance for Industry: Hazard Analysis
and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human Food
(2016)
(more chapters are in development)

https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/searchfda-guidance-documents/draft-guidance-industryhazard-analysis-and-risk-based-preventive-controlshuman-food

FDA Appendix 1: Potential Hazards for Foods
and Processes
(appendix to the guidance document above; currently
being revised)

https://www.fda.gov/media/99581/download

National Advisory Committee on Microbiological
Criteria for Foods: Response to Questions Posed by
https://jfoodprotection.org/doi/pdf/10.4315/0362the Department of Defense Regarding Microbiological
028X.JFP-17-294
Criteria as Indicators of Process Control or Insanitary
Condition (2018)
Commission Regulation (European Commission)
No. 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria for food
standards
Codex Alimentarius Commission's CAC/GL
21 -1997 (last modified 2013) Principles and
Setting
Microbiological guidelines for the establishment and application of
microbiological criteria related to foods
Specifications

Environmental
Monitoring

http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/
sh-proxy/en/?lnk=1&url=https%253A%252F%252Fworkspace.fao.org%252Fsites%252Fcodex%252FStandards%252FCXG%2B21-1997%252FCXG_021e.pdf

International Commission on Microbiological
Specifications for Foods (ICMSF). 2011.
Microorganisms in Foods 8: Use of Data for Assessing
Process Control and Product Acceptance. New York,
NY: Springer.

https://www.springer.com/gp/
book/9781441993731

FDA's Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-toEat Foods: Draft Guidance for Industry (2017)

https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/
Draft-Guidance-for-Industry--Control-ofListeria-monocytogenes-in-Ready-To-Eat-Foods%28PDF%29.pdf

USDA FSIS Compliance Guideline: Controlling
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/
Listeria monocytogenes in Post-lethality Exposed Ready- d3373299-50e6-47d6-a577-e74a1e549fde/
to-Eat meat and poultry product (2014)
Controlling-Lm-RTE-Guideline.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
American Frozen Food Institute's Environmental
Monitoring Unit of Its Listeria Control Program

Method
Validation

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/
TXT/?uri=CELEX:02005R2073-20140601

https://affifoodsafety.org/lcp/environmentalmonitoring/

FDA's Guidelines for the Validation of Analytical
Methods for the Detection of Microbial Pathogens in
https://www.fda.gov/media/83812/download
Foods and Feeds (2015)
(currently in revision)
Appendix J: AOAC International Methods Committee
Guidelines for Validation of Microbiological Methods http://www.eoma.aoac.org/app_j.pdf
for Food and Environmental Surfaces (2012)
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