據美國食品安全新聞網消息，早在2011年，美國公益科學中心便向美國農業部提議，將耐藥沙門氏菌劃歸有害物，受近期大范圍的沙門氏菌疫情推動，該提議再次被提上議程。按照該項提議，如果肉品檢出耐藥沙門氏菌，那么應該啟動產品召回。
部分原文報道如下：
The outbreak of Salmonella linked to Foster Farms chicken products has some consumer advocates talking again about a petition filed in 2011 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to declare antibiotic-resistant Salmonella an adulterant. Doing so would allow the agency to recall meat based simply on tests.
"If tests showed that the meat tested positive for antibiotic-resistant Salmonella, that would be enough to trigger a recall," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, CSPI's director of the food safety program. "Right now, they're saying they can't recall the Foster Farms products because they don't have specific evidence linking an individual who got sick to a package that contains both a lot number and date information that would allow them to track it back to a specific product coming back to the plant."
原文鏈接：<http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/10/foster-farms-outbreak-brings-antibiotic-resistant-salmonella-to-the-fore/>
日期：2013-10-16
