FDA Gives Update on Hot Pepper and Cucumber Enhanced Sampling Program
The Food and Drug Administration recently provided an update (here) on its fiscal year 2016 microbiological surveillance sampling program on hot peppers and cucumbers. As of Oct. 1, FDA has found Salmonella in 15 out of 1,050 cucumber samples and…
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35 out of 1,130 hot pepper samples, it said. The rest tested negative for all targeted pathogens, with the exception of one more positive test of a hot pepper sample for a strain of E. coli that is incapable of causing illness. FDA announced the sampling program in 2015 (see 1511250010), setting a target of 1,600 samples each of cucumbers and hot peppers, with about three-quarters being collected on imports. “This testing is still underway and no conclusions can be drawn at this time,” FDA said in the update.