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Laboratories & Procedures
FSIS laboratories monitor and analyze production processes, identify and evaluate potential foodborne hazards, determine estimates of risk to human health, and respond to recognized, emerging, or potential threats to the food supply.
Test tubes Updates to Chemistry Lab Guidebook (Feb 24, 2012)
Updates to R27c, Screening of Sulfonamides by Automated Robotic Extraction and Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) and R45, Screening and Confirmation of Animal Drug Residues by UHPLC-MS-MS (PDF).
Egg breaking equipment Pasteurized Egg Products Recognized Laboratory: Member Laboratories (Feb 3, 2012; PDF Only)
This list of member laboratories will be updated every six months, approximately. | More Information
Photo of a scientist at work Pilot Program on Isolates
FSIS has decided to institute a pilot program under which it will make isolates available to requesters under certain circumstances.
FSIS Laboratories
The laboratories coordinate and conduct analytical services in support of the Agency's farm-to-table strategies.

Accredited Laboratory Program
The Accredited Laboratory Program (ALP) accredits nonfederal analytical chemistry laboratories to analyze meat and poultry food products for moisture, protein, fat, and salt (MPFS) content, and/or certain specific classes of chemical residues.

Pasteurized Egg Product Recognized Laboratory Program
Pasteurized Egg Products Recognized Laboratory (PEPRLab) Program laboratories perform Salmonella analysis on official surveillance samples of pasteurized egg products.

Guidebooks & Methods
The Guidebooks contain current protocols for analytical tests required by FSIS regulatory activities on meat, poultry and egg products. They include Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook, Chemistry Laboratory Guidebook, and Pathology Laboratory Guidebook.



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