FSMA Fridays: Environmental Monitoring — Answers To Your Questions (Part Three Of Five)

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In part two of FSMA Fridays: Environmental Monitoring — Answers To Your Questions, SafetyChain Software’s VP of Marketing, Jill Bender and  The Acheson Group’s (TAG) founder and CEO Dr. David Acheson addressed questions from the webcast’s live audience on FSMA’s environmental monitoring requirements. Here, in part three, Acheson and Bender continue the conversation.

Jill: We had a few questions come in from Vickie. David, I'll just have you address them instead of me reading them because you'll start talking about them.

David: Vickie's first question here was, "how might the FDA react to a persistent non-L, Mono Listeria species?" If data supports the die-off of Listeria in the product, does that make this product a lower risk? We've kind of got two questions here from Vickie.

How might the FDA react to a persistent non-L mono? Well, oh gosh, these are all "it depends" type answers. Let me focus on this one. About a year ago, maybe 18 months ago, I was in a conference. There was a speaker from the FDA talking about how they were approaching Listeria in the environment. Actually, in the Q & A part, I asked this very question of the regulators. Guess what they said? The answer was, "it depends.” I can quote directly from FDA is, it depends.