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Review of the Methodology Proposed by the Food Safety and Inspection Service for Followup Surveillance of In-Commerce Businesses A Letter Report (2009) / Chapter Skim
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... FSIS agreed that whether there is oversight by other authorities should be the primary risk consideration and that product volume, inherent hazard, consumer susceptibility, and food-defense vulnerability should be used as secondary risk considerations. FSIS, however, seems to have given equal weight to all secondary risk considerations instead of assigning relative importance to them.
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... Finally, it is unclear how FSIS plans to determine the relative proportions of investigators' time that would be spent on initial surveillance and followup surveillance and how priorities would be set for the two activities on a regular basis. That is a key element of in-commerce surveillance, but it was not part of the task assigned to the committee.
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