In compliance with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Quality of Information Guidelines, this page provides information pertaining to the FSIS Peer Review plan and agenda for performing peer reviews for the influential or highly influential scientific work our agency performs.

Read About Scientific Research Guidelines / Peer Review

These peer reviews have been completed.

Public Health-Based Inspection

• Public Health-Based Poultry Inspection: Reductions in E. coli Counts During Poultry Processing (PDF Only)
• Public Health Risk-Based Inspection System for Poultry Slaughter (PDF Only)
• Public Health Risk-Based Inspection System for Processing and Slaughter (PDF Only)

Risk Assessment

• BSE Harvard Risk Assessment Phase I (PDF Only)
• Catfish Risk Assessment External Peer Review (PDF Only)
• Comparative Risk Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in Deli Meat Sliced and Packaged in Various Processing Environments (PDF Only)
• Development of the Use of a Multiplier to Simplify Microbial Food Safety Risk Assessment Models (PDF Only)
• Dose-response for Salmonella spp. in Raw Beef and Raw Poultry Risk Assessment (PDF Only)
• Draft Comparative Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 for Intact and Non-intact Beef (PDF Only)
• Inherent Risk Expert Elicitation for Processed Product (PDF Only)
• Interagency Retail Listeria monocytogenes Risk Assessment (PDF Only)
• Peer Review: A Risk Assessment of the Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection: revised 2012 (PDF Only)
• Peer Review of the FSIS Risk Assessment Evaluating the Public Health Impact of Increased Food Safety Interventions at Beef Slaughter (PDF Only)
• Risk Assessment for Guidance of Generic E. coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter Performance Standards (PDF Only)
• Risk Assessment for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Poultry, Shell Eggs and Egg Products (PDF Only)
• Risk Profile for Non-O157 Pathogenic Shiga-toxin Producing E. coli (STEC) (PDF Only)

Risk-Based Inspection; Risk-Based Verification Sampling

• Risk-Based Poultry Slaughter Inspection (PDF Only)
• Risk-Based Verification Sampling for E. coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef (PDF Only)
• Risk-Based Verification Sampling for Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products (PDF Only)

See Also: Risk Assessments (and associated Peer Review Comments and Responses)

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