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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Science Advisor   Microbial Risk Assessment Guideline: Pathogenic Microorganisms with Focus on Food and Water Federal Register Notices Scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and joined by scientists from other federal agencies developed the Guideline for Microbial Risk Assessment: Pathogenic Microorganisms with Focus on Food and Water (231 pp, 1.24Mb, About PDF). This document provides a common framework to perform microbial risk assessment (MRA). It lays out a flexible set of approaches, methods, and tools for use to conduct their microbial risk assessment and provide more transparency to the process and results. This guideline addresses issues specific to microbial risk, e.g., secondary transmission, immune status, and growth and die-off of organisms, as well as addressing concepts generic to classical chemical risk assessment. When used by participating agencies, this product will promote greater consistency in the way that participating agencies conduct their assessments and provide more transparency. The link to the Guideline for Microbial Risk Assessment: Pathogenic Microorganisms with Focus on Food and Water may also be found on the USDA’s FSIS website. SEE:  http://www.epa.gov/raf/microbial.htm  Last updated on Monday, August 06, 2012