I do more Salmonella testing than the 5 carcasses per week that I am legally obliged to do. Can I choose the 5 Salmonella test results that I present to my OVS for statutory purposes?
I’m afraid not (but top marks for creativity!). The FSA advise handling situations where plants test more frequently than they have to as follows: A test week runs from Monday to Sunday. All of the test samples within a test week should be collected together and scaled down to 5 values. An example of how to do that for Salmonella for the testing schedule below is: Monday: 5 samples taken (1 is positive); Tuesday: 6 samples taken (0 positive); Thursday; 8 samples taken (1 positive); Friday; 4 samples taken (0 positive). Add together all the samples taken in the test week: 5+6+8+4 = 23 Add together all the positive samples generated in the test week: 1+0+0+1 = 2 Divide the number of positives by the total number of samples taken and then multiply by 5: 2รท23 x 5 = 0.43 Thus pro rata, the scaled result is that 0.43 samples out of 5 were positive for Salmonella. The meat test results database will do these scalings for you automatically and generate a report for you if you simply enter your
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