Federal Register Digest Archive
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIC)
69 Fed. Reg. 76884 (December 23, 2004) (proposed rule). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is publishing this document to inform slaughterers of young calves, including those marketed, slaughtered, and labeled as "veal," of the need for such firms to reassess their Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System, including prerequisite programs, with respect to animal drug residues and the use of unapproved new animal drugs.
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69 Fed. Reg. 74405 (December 14, 2004) (final rule)(to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 317 and 381). This rule announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is establishing January 1, 2008, as the uniform compliance date for new food labeling regulations that are issued between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006. FSIS is establishing a uniform compliance date to minimize the economic impact of labeling changes by providing for an orderly industry adjustment to new labeling requirements that occur between the designated dates. Furthermore, FSIS is establishing the uniform compliance date approach in order to be consistent with the approach that the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, has already established.
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69 Fed. Reg. 70051 (December 2, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 430). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is extending the public comment period on the interim final rule "Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products."
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69 Fed. Reg. 70051 (December 2, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 430). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing the availability of the report "Assessing the Effectiveness of the Listeria monocytogenes Interim Final Rule." The report was written by the Agency's Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) Assessment Team (Team) and presents the findings and recommendations of the Team which was responsible for assessing and measuring the effectiveness of the regulation to control L. monocytogenes in certain ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products. FSIS requests comments on the report. FSIS will consider the report and the comments on it, along with the comments that we receive on the interim final rule itself, in deriving a final rule on L. monocytogenes.
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69 Fed. Reg. 59574 (October 5, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service will hold a public meeting on October 13-15, 2004, in Miami, Florida, to review and discuss the establishment of the Food Safety Institute of the Americas (FSIA). The creation of the FSIA is an innovative idea for integrating scientific food safety education, information, communication, and outreach in the Americas.
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69 Fed. Reg. 59575 (October 5, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing that it will hold a public meeting to discuss two draft quantitative risk assessments on Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs and Salmonella spp. in liquid egg products.
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69 Fed. Reg. 58799 (October 1, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 317 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its nutrition labeling regulations to change the definition of "meal- type" products to allow for nutrient content claims on multiple-serve food containers, to adopt the definition of "main dish" used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and to define how meal-type products and main dishes should be nutrition labeled.
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69 Fed. Reg. 58125 (September 29, 2004) (notice). This notice informs the public that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, are sponsoring a public meeting on Tuesday, September 28, 2004, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the Fifteenth Session of the Codex Committee on Residues in Veterinary Drugs in Foods, which will be held in Alexandria, VA, October 26-29, 2004.
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69 Fed. Reg. 56742 (September 22, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the availability of FSIS Form 10,240-1, Production Information on Post- Lethality Exposed Ready-to-Eat Products. This form will be used to collect information about the ready-to-eat products produced by establishments.
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69 Fed. Reg. 55793 (September 16, 2004) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are sponsoring a public meeting on September 15, 2004, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the Fourth Session of the Codex ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Fruit and Vegetable Juices, which will be held in Fortaleza, Brazil, October 11-15, 2004. The Under Secretary and CFSAN recognize the importance of providing interested parties with information about the Intergovernmental Task Force on Fruit and Vegetable Juices of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and to address items on the Agenda for the 4th Session of the Task Force.
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69 Fed. Reg. 54625 (September 9, 2004) (notice). All livestock establishments are required to meet requirements in the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, Federal Meat Inspection Act and implementing regulations. FSIS believes a systematic approach is beneficial in meeting these requirements and through this notice is encouraging livestock slaughter establishments to use a systematic approach to humane handling and slaughter to best ensure that they meet the requirements of the HMSA, FMIA, and implementing regulations.
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69 Fed. Reg. 51194 (August 18, 2004) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 329 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to amend its regulations to change the required frequency of foreign inspection system supervisory visits to certified foreign establishments so as to bring FSIS import requirements into agreement with its requirements for domestic establishments. FSIS is proposing to delete the current requirement that supervisory visits take place "not less frequent[ly] than one such visit per month." In its place, FSIS is proposing to require foreign inspection systems to make "periodic supervisory visits" to certified establishments in order to ensure that such establishments continue to meet FSIS requirements for certification to export meat and poultry to the United States.
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69 Fed. Reg. 50086 (August 13, 2004) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 327). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to add San Marino to the list of countries eligible to export meat and meat products to the United States. Reviews of San Marino's laws, regulations, and other written materials show that its meat processing system meets requirements equivalent to all provisions in the Federal Meat Inspection Act and its implementing regulations.
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69 Fed. Reg. 50155 (August 13, 2004) (notice). This notice informs the public that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA, and the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on September 9, 2004. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States' positions that will be discussed at the 26th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses to be held in Bonn, Germany, November 1-5, 2004.
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69 Fed. Reg. 50157 (August 13, 2004) (notice). This notice informs the public that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety and the Agricultural Marketing Service are sponsoring a public meeting on August 31, 2004, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the Codex Committee on Processed Fruits and Vegetables, which will be held in Alexandria, Virginia on September 27-October 1, 2004.
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69 Fed. Reg. 50158 (August 13, 2004) (notice). This notice announces that the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods will hold public meetings of the full committee and subcommittees on August 24-27, 2004. The committee will continue to discuss: (1) Performance standards for ground chicken/ ground turkey, (2) the scientific basis for establishing safety-based "use by" date labeling for refrigerated ready-to-eat foods, and (3) scientific criteria for redefining pasteurization.
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69 Fed. Reg. 47401 (August 5, 2004) (notice). This notice announces that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is soliciting nominations for membership on the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection. The full Committee consists of 16-18 members, and each person selected is expected to serve a 2-year term.
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69 Fed. Reg. 42287 (July 14, 2004) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 309, 310, 318, and 319). Following detection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an imported dairy cow in Washington State in December 2003, the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services announced a series of regulatory actions and policy changes to strengthen protections against the spread of BSE in U.S. cattle and against human exposure to the BSE agent. The Secretary of Agriculture also convened an international panel of experts on BSE to review the U.S. response to the Washington case and make recommendations that could provide meaningful additional public or animal health benefits. The purpose of this advance notice of proposed rulemaking is to inform the public about the panel's recommendations and to solicit comment on additional measures under consideration based on those recommendations and other considerations.
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69 Fed. Reg. 34119 (June 18, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is requesting comments on the types of information that it intends to post on its Web site regarding the use of new technologies in the production of meat, poultry, and egg products. Specifically, FSIS intends to post information about new technologies that are under review, or that have been reviewed, by the Agency. The Agency seeks comments about the value of the information to the public and the costs and other detrimental effects to a company if this information is made publicly available. FSIS is publishing this notice as part of its ongoing effort to increase public and industry awareness of new technologies and to foster their use by small and very small plants.
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69 Fed. Reg. 31942 (June 8, 2004) (notice). This notice informs the public of the sanitary and phytosanitary standard-setting activities of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), in accordance with the Trade Agreements Act of 1979, as amended, and the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. This notice also provides a list of other standard-setting activities of Codex, including commodity standards, guidelines, codes of practice, and revised texts. This notice, which covers the time periods from June 1, 2003, to May 31, 2004, and June 1, 2004, to May 31, 2005, seeks comments on standards currently under consideration and recommendations for new standards.
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69 Fed. Reg. 31341 (June 3, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is holding a series of workshops from May through September, 2004, to discuss Revision 1 of Directive 10,010.1, "Microbiological Testing Program and Other Verification Activities for Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli O157:H7) in Raw Ground Beef Products and Raw Ground Beef Components and Beef Patty Components." This directive provides FSIS inspection personnel with instructions for sampling raw beef products as part of verification testing for E. coli O157:H7. It also outlines actions FSIS will take when a raw ground beef product sample is found to be positive for E. coli O157:H7. Directive 5000.2, "Review of Establishment Data by Inspection Program Personnel" and Directive 6420.2, "Verification of Procedures for Controlling Fecal Material, Ingesta, and Milk in Slaughter Operations" will also be discussed. Directive 5000.2 states that FSIS will review plant food safety records at least once a week. Directive 6420.2 clarifies FSIS zero tolerance policies and verification methods. The meetings are targeted to small and very small plant owner/operators.
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69 Fed. Reg. 29124 (May 20, 2004) (notice). The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection will hold a public meeting on June 2-3, 2004, to review and discuss the following issues: (1) The appropriateness of the Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) plans for assessing the effects of the interim final rule on the control of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in ready-to-eat meat and poultry products; (2) the advisability of requiring establishments to develop food security plans; and (3) the appropriateness of FSIS establishing test and hold procedures for meat and poultry products that are tested for the presence of an adulterant by FSIS. Three subcommittees will also meet on June 2, 2004, to work on the issues discussed during the full committee session.
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69 Fed. Reg. 28042 (May 18, 2004) (final rule) (9 C.F.R. Parts 317 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is providing additional time for manufacturers of packaged pizza products to comply with new regulations that require that the labeling of products identified as "pizzas" that contain a meat or poultry component as part of the product name, declare the percent of meat or poultry in the product in a parenthetical statement contiguous to the ingredients statement.
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69 Fed. Reg. 25539 (May 7, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is implementing the modified approach to the testing of meat carcasses for the presence of violative new animal drug residues, and disposition of product thereafter, as was announced in an August 6, 2001, Federal Register notice (66 FR 40964). This action will make FSIS' testing and disposition procedures consistent with the target tissue/marker residue policy of the Food and Drug Administration. FSIS is modifying its approach to ensure that meat containing unsafe levels of animal drug residues is not released into commerce.
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69 Fed. Reg. 24539 (May 4, 2004) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 317 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to establish January 1, 2008, as the uniform compliance date for new food labeling regulations that are issued between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006. FSIS is proposing to establish a uniform compliance date to minimize the economic impact of labeling changes by providing for an orderly industry adjustment to new labeling requirements. Furthermore, FSIS is establishing the uniform compliance date to be consistent with the approach that the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration has already established.
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69 Fed. Reg. 24556 (May 4, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the availability of FSIS Directive 5000.2, "Review of Establishment Data by Inspection Program Personnel." In December 2003, the Agency issued FSIS Notice 54-03 "Review of Establishment Data by Inspection Program Personnel" to clarify that FSIS inspection program personnel have access to a wide range of establishment food safety records under the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems regulations and to ensure that inspection program personnel understand that certain food safety records kept by the establishment are subject to review on a regular basis. FSIS has revised Notice 54-03 and is reissuing it as an FSIS Directive.
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69 Fed. Reg. 23722 (April 30, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing the new dollar limitations on the amount of sales of meat and meat food products and poultry products to hotels, restaurants, and similar institutions that do not disqualify a retail store for exemption from Federal inspection requirements. By reason of FSIS' regulations, for calendar year 2004 the dollar limitation for meat and meat food products has been increased from $47,000 to $53,600 and for poultry products from $41,600 to $43,600. FSIS is increasing the dollar limitations from calendar year 2003 based on price changes for these products evidenced by the Consumer Price Index.
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69 Fed. Reg. 21047 (April 20, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 320 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing that all parties required to register with the Agency, including those that are currently registered, have until May 24, 2004, to file the new registration form that the Agency has developed. On June 25, 2003, FSIS announced that it had developed the new registration form, and that all businesses required to register with FSIS were to submit the form by March 22, 2004. FSIS is extending the deadline for submitting the new registration forms because it was not available at the time FSIS projected that it would be available.
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69 Fed. Reg. 18245 (April 7, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 CFR Parts 301, 309, 310, 311, 313, 318, 319 and 320). The Food Safety and Inspection Services is announcing the availability of, and requesting public comment on, its preliminary regulatory impact analysis of three interim rules and a notice issued on January 12, 2004, in response to the detection of a case of BSE in the United States. It is also extending the comment period for the three interim final rules issued on that date so that the closing date of that comment period coincides with the closing date of the comment period for the preliminary regulatory impact analysis.
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69 Fed. Reg. 12113 (March 15, 2004) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) of the Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on March 30, 2004 to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the 32nd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which will be held in Montreal, Canada on May 10-14, 2004. The Under Secretary and FDA recognize the importance of providing interested parties the opportunity to obtain background information on the agenda items that will be debated at this forthcoming Session of the CCFL.
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69 Fed. Reg. 5116 (February 3, 2004) (notice). This notice announces the Food Safety and Inspection Service's intention to request an extension for and revision to a currently approved information collection package regarding Application for Inspection, Accreditation of Laboratories, and Exemptions.
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69 Fed. Reg. 5117 (February 3, 2004) (notice). This notice announces the Food Safety and Inspection Service's intention to request an extension for a currently approved information collection package regarding Procedures for Notification of New Technology.
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69 Fed. Reg. 5120 (February 3, 2004) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on February 9, 2004, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the meeting of the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants, which will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on March 22-26, 2004.
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69 Fed. Reg. 5119 (February 3, 2004) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, of the Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on February 24, 2004, to present and receive comment on draft United States positions on all issues coming before the Thirty-sixth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene, which will be held in Washington, DC, March 29-April 3, 2004.
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69 Fed. Reg. 5118 (February 3, 2004) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, of the Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on February 10, 2004, to review the technical contents of the agenda item documents and to receive comments on all issues coming before the Twenty-sixth Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary, March 8-12, 2004.
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69 Fed. Reg. 5120 (February 3, 2004) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, and the Agricultural Marketing Service, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, of the Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on April 13, 2004, to review the technical content of the agenda item documents and receive comments on all issues coming before the Sixth Session of the Codex Committee on Milk and Milk Products, which will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, April 26-30, 2004.
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69 Fed. Reg. 4918 (February 2, 2004) (notice). The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods will hold a public meeting of the full committee on February 13, 2004. The committee will discuss: (1) Performance standards for broilers (young chickens)/ground chicken, (2) the scientific basis for establishing safety-based "use by" date labeling for refrigerated ready-to-eat foods, and (3) scientific criteria for redefining pasteurization. Subcommittees will also meet and the meeting times are set forth in this notice.
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69 Fed. Reg. 4106 (January 28, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing that it will hold a series of teaching workshops from January through March 2004, to discuss the actions that FSIS has taken to prevent human exposure to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy by ensuring that high-risk materials do not enter the human food supply.
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69 Fed. Reg. 1647 (January 12, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 592). The Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Agricultural Marketing Service are transferring the regulations governing the voluntary inspection of egg products from 7 C.F.R. Part 55 to 9 C.F.R. Part 592 to reflect that this program has been transferred to FSIS. The FSIS is providing the public with an opportunity to comment on the clarity and technical accuracy of the amended regulations.
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69 Fed. Reg. 1873 (January 12, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 301, 318, and 320). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing this interim final rule on meat produced by advanced meat recovery systems. This new regulation is a prophylactic measure designed, in part, to prevent human exposure to the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) agent by ensuring that advanced meat recovery systems are not a means of introducing central nervous system tissue into product labeled as "meat." In addition to the measures related to BSE, FSIS is finalizing restrictions related to bone solids and bone marrow for livestock products. This rule articulates the criteria that FSIS will use to ensure that advanced meat recovery products can be represented as "meat" and thus are not adulterated or misbranded. Finally, the Agency is requiring that Federally-inspected establishments that process the carcasses or parts of cattle develop, implement, and maintain written procedures for the removal, segregation, and disposition of specified risk materials, including non-complying product from beef advanced meat recovery systems. Establishments must incorporate these procedures into their HACCP plans or in their Sanitation SOPs or other prerequisite program. The FSIS is issuing this document as an interim final rule because of the discovery of a BSE-positive cow in this country.
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69 Fed. Reg. 1861 (January 12, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 301, 309, et al.). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending the Federal meat inspection regulations to designate the brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord, vertebral column (excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum), and dorsal root ganglia of cattle 30 months of age and older, and the tonsils and distal ileum of the small intestine of all cattle, as "specified risk materials" (SRMs). The Agency is declaring that SRMs are inedible and prohibiting their use for human food. In addition, FSIS is requiring that all non-ambulatory disabled cattle presented for slaughter be condemned. The Agency is requiring that federally-inspected establishments that slaughter cattle and federally-inspected establishments that process the carcasses or parts of cattle develop, implement, and maintain written procedures for the removal, segregation, and disposition of SRMs. Establishments must incorporate these procedures into their HACCP plans or in their Sanitation SOPs or other prerequisite program. FSIS is taking this action in response to the diagnosis on December 23, 2003, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture of a positive case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an adult Holstein cow in the State of Washington.
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69 Fed. Reg. 1884 (January 12, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 310 and 313). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending the Federal meat inspection regulations to prohibit the use of penetrative captive bolt stunning devices that deliberately inject air into the cranial cavity of cattle. This rulemaking responds to the findings of a risk assessment on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) conducted by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysisand is part of a series of actions that the USDA is taking to strengthen its BSE prevention programs.
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69 Fed. Reg. 1891 (January 12, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will no longer pass and apply the mark of inspection to the carcasses and parts from cattle that are selected for testing by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) until the sample is determined to be negative.
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69 Fed. Reg. 1547 (January 9, 2004) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is reopening and extending the comment period for the proposed rulemaking, "Classes of Poultry." The comment period for the proposed rule closed on November 28, 2003. This action responds to a request from an industry trade association to allow additional time to comment on a specific issue raised in the preamble to the proposed rule.
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69 Fed. Reg. 1566 (January 9, 2004) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is providing notice that it will not provide reimbursable overtime and holiday meat, poultry, and egg product inspection services to persons who have delinquent accounts .
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69 Fed. Reg. 250 (January 5, 2004) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 300, 301, 306, 318, 320, and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending regulations adopted under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act by updating and consolidating organizational provisions .
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68 Fed. Reg. 74205 (December 23, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service will hold a public meeting on January 13, 2004, to discuss the development and use of new food safety technologies to enhance public health.
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68 Fed. Reg. 64205 (December 23, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is sponsoring a public meeting on January 15, 2004, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the Tenth Session of the Codex Committee on Meat Hygiene, which will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, on February 16-20, 2004.
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68 Fed. Reg. 63983 (November 12, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it is confirming the addition of Australia and New Zealand to the list of countries eligible to import poultry products (ratite only) into the United States.
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68 Fed. Reg. 62228 (November 3, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 319 and 381). On April 29, 2003, the Food Safety and Inspection Service published a direct final rule "Approving Ingredients Used in the Production of Meat and Poultry Products: Use of Any Safe and Suitable Binder or Antimicrobial Agent in Meat and Poultry Products with Standards of Identity or Composition" in the Federal Register. This direct final rule amended the Federal meat and poultry products inspection regulations to permit the use of any safe and suitable binder or antimicrobial agent in the production of meat and poultry products that are subject to a standard of identity or composition that provides for the use of such ingredients.
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68 Fed. Reg. 61183 (October 27, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold a public meeting on risk analysis on November 13, 2003. The meeting will provide a forum for experts from government, academia, industry and consumer organizations to discuss current government thinking and activities regarding how the three components of the risk analysis framework (risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication) are used to inform and implement risk management decisions.
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68 Fed. Reg. 61182 (October 27, 2003) (notice). The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection will hold a public meeting on November 5-6, 2003, to review and discuss the following issues: "Procedures for Conducting Inspection in Talmadge Aiken Plants;" "What is the best use of data to support risk-based inspection?" and "How can FSIS better associate food safety activities with public health surveillance data?" Three subcommittees will also meet on November 5, 2003, to work on the issues discussed during the full committee session.
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68 Fed. Reg. 60904 (October 24, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on October 27, 2003. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States' positions that will be discussed at the 19th Session of the Codex Committee on General Principles to be held in Paris, France, November 17-21, 2003. The Under Secretary for Food Safety and FDA recognize the importance of providing interested parties with the opportunity to obtain background information on the 19th Session of CCGP and to address items on the agenda.
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68 Fed. Reg. 59909 (October 20, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is soliciting nominations for membership on the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection. This notice will be used to fill one vacancy on the Committee.
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68 Fed. Reg. 58060 (October 8, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, are sponsoring two public meetings. The first meeting will be held on October 22, 2003, to review and receive comments in preparation to develop draft U.S. positions, and the second will be held on November 12, 2003, to provide information and receive public comments on the U.S. Draft positions for agenda items that will be discussed at the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems, which will be held in Brisbane, Australia, December 1-5, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 55902 (September 29, 2003) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend the definitions and standards for the official U.S. classes of poultry so that they more accurately and clearly describe the characteristics of poultry in the market today. Poultry classes are defined primarily in terms of the age and sex of the bird. Genetic improvements and new poultry management techniques have reduced the grow-out period for some poultry classes, while extensive cross breeding has produced poultry with higher meat yields but blurred breed distinctions. This action is being taken to ensure that poultry products are labeled in a truthful and non-misleading manner.
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68 Fed. Reg. 52174 (September 2, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold a public meeting on pre-harvest food safety issues and E. coli O157:H7 on September 9, 2003, in Washington, DC. The meeting will consist of presentations on the research and practical experiences aimed at reducing E. coli O157:H7 at the livestock production level before livestock reach federally inspected plants. The meeting will also include a brief review of on-farm interventions for pathogens other than E. coli O157:H7 that have already been adopted by producers.
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68 Fed. Reg. 50687 (August 22, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold five workshops from September through October, 2003, to discuss the upcoming implementation of the interim final rule, ``Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products,'' (68 FR 34208), which is effective on October 6, 2003. The provisions of the rule require official establishments that produce certain ready-to-eat meat and poultry products to prevent product adulteration by the pathogenic environmental contaminant Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes). The focus of the upcoming workshops will be on how small and very small plants can comply with the new regulations. Key elements of the implementation of the final rule will be addressed, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions and seek additional information.
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68 Fed. Reg. 46569 (August 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods will hold public meetings of the full committee on August 20 & 22, 2003. The committee will discuss: (1) Protocols for Food Safety and Inspection Service ongoing microbiological baseline studies of raw meat and poultry products, (2) performance standards for broilers (young chickens)/ ground chicken, (3) the scientific basis for establishing safety-based ``use by'' date labeling for refrigerated, ready-to-eat foods, and (4) scientific criteria for redefining pasteurization. Meeting topics for subcommittees are also set forth in this notice.
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68 Fed. Reg. 45789 (August 4, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing the availability of the its current safety and security guidelines for the transportation and distribution of meat, poultry, and egg products. These guidelines were developed to assist facilities and shippers of all sizes to improve food safety and security in the handling of products regulated by the Food Safety and Inspection Service. These guidelines include measures to improve food security during the loading, transport, in-transit storage, and unloading of meat, poultry, and egg products.
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68 Fed. Reg. 41110 (July 10, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are sponsoring a public meeting on September 16, 2003. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States positions that will be discussed at the 25th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses to be held in Bonn, Germany, November 3-7, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 41109 (July 10, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, of the Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on September 3, 2003, to review the agenda items and to receive comments on all issues coming before the Twenty-sixth Session of the Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products, which will be held in Alesund, Norway, October 13-17, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 37954 (June 26, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 391, 590, and 592). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its regulations to change the fees that it charges meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, importers, and exporters for providing voluntary inspection services, overtime and holiday inspection services, identification services, certification services, and laboratory services. The Agency is raising the fees for voluntary base time and holiday and overtime inspection services. The Food Safety Inspection Service is also decreasing the fee for laboratory services because of greater efficiencies realized.
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68 Fed. Reg. 37730 (June 25, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 320 and 381). This final rule announces that the Food Safety Inspection Service intends to increase its enforcement of the registration and recordkeeping requirements to ensure that all businesses subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act and Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act that are required to be registered with the Food Safety Inspection Service and/or to maintain business records are properly doing so. The Food Safety Inspection Service is also informing the public that it has developed a new registration form. Because this form requires that registrants provide certain information that was not required on the previous form, all parties required to register, including those that are currently registered, must complete the new form and submit it to the Food Safety Inspection Service.
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68 Fed. Reg. 37069 (June 23, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will add Australia and New Zealand to the list of countries eligible to import poultry products into the United States.
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68 Fed. Reg. 34900 (June 11, 2003) (notice). The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection will hold a public meeting on June 23-24, 2003, to review and discuss the following issues: Impact of Bio-security Issues on Industry; Delivery of Training; and State Review Methods. Three subcommittees of the full committee will also meet on June 23, 2003, to work on the issues discussed during the full Committee session.
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68 Fed. Reg. 34373 (June 9, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing the dollar limitations on sales of meat and meat food products and poultry products to hotels, restaurants, and similar institutions that do not disqualify a store for exemption from Federal inspection requirements. For calendar year 2003 the dollar limitation for meat and meat food products is remaining at $47,000.00 and for poultry products at $41,600. 00.
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68 Fed. Reg. 34207 (June 6, 2003) (interim final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 430). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its regulations to require that official establishments that produce certain ready-to-eat meat and poultry productsprevent product adulteration by the pathogenic environmental contaminant Listeria monocytogenes. In particular, under these regulations, establishments that produce ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that are exposed to the environment after lethality treatments and that support the growth of L. monocytogenes will be required to have, in their hazard analysis and critical control point plans, or in their sanitation standard operating procedures or other prerequisite programs, controls that prevent product adulteration by L. monocytogenes. The establishments must share with FSIS data and information relevant to their controls for L. monocytogenes. The establishments also must furnish FSIS with information on the production volume of products affected by the regulations.
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68 Fed. Reg. 33905 (June 6, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture is sponsoring a public meeting on June 12, 2003. The purpose of this meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the Twenty-sixth Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission which will be held in Rome, Italy from June 30 to July 7, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 33444 (June 4, 2003) (notice). This notice informs the public of the sanitary and phytosanitary standard-setting activities of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. This notice also provides a list of other standard-setting activities of Codex, including commodity standards, guidelines, codes of practice, and revised texts. This notice, which covers the time periods from June 1, 2002, to May 31, 2003, and June 1, 2003, to May 31, 2004, seeks comments on standards currently under consideration and recommendations for new standards.
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68 Fed. Reg. 31679 (May 28, 2003) (notice). This notice announces the Food Safety and Inspection Service's intention to request an extension for and revision to a currently approved information collection package regarding Pathogen Reduction and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System. In addition, the Food Safety and Inspection Service plans to incorporate the currently approved Eschericha coli (E. coli) contamination in beef products information collection package into the revised and extended Pathogen Reduction/HACCP information collection package.
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68 Fed. Reg. 22576 (April 29, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 319 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its regulations to permit the use of any safe and suitable binder or antimicrobial agent in the production of meat and poultry products that are subject to a standard of identity or composition that provides for the use of such ingredients. The use of these ingredients must be consistent with any limitations or conditions of use prescribed in applicable Food Safety and Inspection Service or Food and Drug Administration regulations.
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68 Fed. Reg. 22357 (April 28, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold a public meeting on the use of epidemiological data, principles, and techniques, and of other public health tools, to help it achieve its public health goals. The Agency will describe how it responds to epidemiological evidence developed by States or other federal agencies; how it uses that evidence; how it conducts food safety investigations; and, in appropriate circumstances, initiates regulatory actions based on such evidence.
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68 Fed. Reg. 18593 (April 16, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing its intention to make publicly available the results of its testing for Salmonella on livestock and poultry carcasses and in raw ground meat and poultry products. The Agency also intends to post the results of all completed sampling sets on its Web site.
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68 Fed. Reg. 18560 (April 16, 2003) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 317 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend its nutrition labeling regulations to change the definition of ``meal-type'' products to allow for nutrient content claims on multiple-serve food containers, to adopt the definition of ``main dish'' used by the Food and Drug Administration, and to define how meal-type products and main dishes should be nutritionally labeled. The change in the definition of meal-type products would allow nutrient content claims to be based on 100 grams of product rather than on the serving size, which is based on the Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed for the food components.
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68 Fed. Reg. 14574 (March 26, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service, will hold an international food safety conference on March 27, 2003. The purpose of the conference is to share perspectives on various food safety issues, discuss strategies to improve food safety worldwide and serve as a forum for fostering relationships to promote food safety.
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68 Fed. Reg. 12338 (March 14, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration , Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on March 20, 2003, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the 31st Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling, which will be held in Ottawa, Canada, on April 28-May 2, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 11008 (March 7, 2003) (notice of withdrawal of advance notice of proposed rulemaking) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 317 and 327). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is withdrawing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking entitled ``Product Labeling: Defining United States Cattle and United States Fresh Beef Products,'' which was published in the Federal Register on August 7, 2001. The country-of-origin labeling provisions in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 supplant the issues raised in the advance notice of proposed rulemaking and, therefore, the the advance notice of proposed rulemaking is being withdrawn.
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68 Fed. Reg. 8858 (February 26, 2003) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 391, 590, and 592). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to change the fees that it charges meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, importers, and exporters for providing voluntary inspection services, overtime and holiday inspection services, identification services, certification services, and laboratory services. The Agency is proposing to raise the fees for voluntary base time and holiday and overtime inspection services.
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68 Fed. Reg. 6973 (February 12, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing new procedures for meat and poultry official establishments, egg products official plants, and companies that manufacture and sell technology to official establishments and plants, to notify the Agency of any new technology intended for use in official establishments and plants, so that the Agency has an opportunity to decide whether the new technology requires a pre-use review. The Agency believes that facilitation of the use of new technology represents an important means of improving the safety of meat, poultry, and egg products.
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68 Fed. Reg. 6109 (February 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is making available, and requesting public comment on, its draft risk assessment for Listeria in deli- and hot dog-type meat and poultry products that are exposed to the environment post-lethality. The Food Safety and Inspection Service has conducted this risk assessment, addressing both Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species (spp), to examine the effectiveness of testing food contact surfaces and sanitation on product contamination and the subsequent risk of illness, and to evaluate the effectiveness of other interventions (e.g., post-processing interventions).
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67 Fed. Reg. 540 (January 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is addressing comments that it received on its August 6, 2001 Federal Register notice, ``Residue Testing Procedures.'' That notice announced that the Food Safety and Inspection Service was changing the action that it would take when livestock or poultry that are presented for slaughter come from producers and others who have previously marketed such animals that contain violative levels of chemical residues . FSIS will now post on its website, the names and addresses of the sellers of livestock and poultry who the Food and Drug Administration has determined are responsible for the repeated sale of livestock or poultry that contain violative levels of chemical residues.
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Fed. Reg. 540 (January 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is addressing comments that it received on its August 6, 2001 Federal Register notice, ``Residue Testing Procedures.'' That notice announced that the Food Safety and Inspection Service was changing the action that it would take when livestock or poultry that are presented for slaughter come from producers and others who have previously marketed such animals that contain violative levels of chemical residues . FSIS will now post on its website, the names and addresses of the sellers of livestock and poultry who the Food and Drug Administration has determined are responsible for the repeated sale of livestock or poultry that contain violative levels of chemical residues.
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68 Fed. Reg. 74205 (December 23, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service will hold a public meeting on January 13, 2004, to discuss the development and use of new food safety technologies to enhance public health.
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68 Fed. Reg. 64205 (December 23, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is sponsoring a public meeting on January 15, 2004, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the Tenth Session of the Codex Committee on Meat Hygiene, which will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, on February 16-20, 2004.
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68 Fed. Reg. 63983 (November 12, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it is confirming the addition of Australia and New Zealand to the list of countries eligible to import poultry products (ratite only) into the United States.
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68 Fed. Reg. 62228 (November 3, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 319 and 381). On April 29, 2003, the Food Safety and Inspection Service published a direct final rule "Approving Ingredients Used in the Production of Meat and Poultry Products: Use of Any Safe and Suitable Binder or Antimicrobial Agent in Meat and Poultry Products with Standards of Identity or Composition" in the Federal Register. This direct final rule amended the Federal meat and poultry products inspection regulations to permit the use of any safe and suitable binder or antimicrobial agent in the production of meat and poultry products that are subject to a standard of identity or composition that provides for the use of such ingredients.
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68 Fed. Reg. 61183 (October 27, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold a public meeting on risk analysis on November 13, 2003. The meeting will provide a forum for experts from government, academia, industry and consumer organizations to discuss current government thinking and activities regarding how the three components of the risk analysis framework– risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication– are used to inform and implement risk management decisions.
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68 Fed. Reg. 61182 (October 27, 2003) (notice). The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection will hold a public meeting on November 5-6, 2003, to review and discuss the following issues: "Procedures for Conducting Inspection in Talmadge Aiken Plants;" "What is the best use of data to support risk-based inspection?" and "How can FSIS better associate food safety activities with public health surveillance data?" Three subcommittees will also meet on November 5, 2003, to work on the issues discussed during the full committee session.
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68 Fed. Reg. 60904 (October 24, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on October 27, 2003. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States' positions that will be discussed at the 19th Session of the Codex Committee on General Principles to be held in Paris, France, November 17-21, 2003. The Under Secretary for Food Safety and FDA recognize the importance of providing interested parties with the opportunity to obtain background information on the 19th Session of CCGP and to address items on the agenda.
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68 Fed. Reg. 59909 (October 20, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is soliciting nominations for membership on the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection. This notice will be used to fill one vacancy on the Committee.
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68 Fed. Reg. 58060 (October 8, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, are sponsoring two public meetings. The first meeting will be held on October 22, 2003, to review and receive comments in preparation to develop draft U.S. positions, and the second will be held on November 12, 2003, to provide information and receive public comments on the U.S. Draft positions for agenda items that will be discussed at the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems, which will be held in Brisbane, Australia, December 1-5, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 55902 (September 29, 2003) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend the definitions and standards for the official U.S. classes of poultry so that they more accurately and clearly describe the characteristics of poultry in the market today. Poultry classes are defined primarily in terms of the age and sex of the bird. Genetic improvements and new poultry management techniques have reduced the grow-out period for some poultry classes, while extensive cross breeding has produced poultry with higher meat yields but blurred breed distinctions. This action is being taken to ensure that poultry products are labeled in a truthful and non-misleading manner.
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68 Fed. Reg. 52174 (September 2, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold a public meeting on pre-harvest food safety issues and E. coli O157:H7 on September 9, 2003, in Washington, DC. The meeting will consist of presentations on the research and practical experiences aimed at reducing E. coli O157:H7 at the livestock production level before livestock reach federally inspected plants. The meeting will also include a brief review of on-farm interventions for pathogens other than E. coli O157:H7 that have already been adopted by producers.
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68 Fed. Reg. 50687 (August 22, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold five workshops from September through October, 2003, to discuss the upcoming implementation of the interim final rule, ``Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products,'' (68 FR 34208), which is effective on October 6, 2003. The provisions of the rule require official establishments that produce certain ready-to-eat meat and poultry products to prevent product adulteration by the pathogenic environmental contaminant Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes). The focus of the upcoming workshops will be on how small and very small plants can comply with the new regulations. Key elements of the implementation of the final rule will be addressed, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions and seek additional information.
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68 Fed. Reg. 46569 (August 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods will hold public meetings of the full committee on August 20 & 22, 2003. The committee will discuss: (1) Protocols for Food Safety and Inspection Service ongoing microbiological baseline studies of raw meat and poultry products, (2) performance standards for broilers (young chickens)/ ground chicken, (3) the scientific basis for establishing safety-based ``use by'' date labeling for refrigerated, ready-to-eat foods, and (4) scientific criteria for redefining pasteurization. Meeting topics for subcommittees are also set forth in this notice.
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68 Fed. Reg. 45789 (August 4, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing the availability of the its current safety and security guidelines for the transportation and distribution of meat, poultry, and egg products. These guidelines were developed to assist facilities and shippers of all sizes to improve food safety and security in the handling of products regulated by the Food Safety and Inspection Service. These guidelines include measures to improve food security during the loading, transport, in-transit storage, and unloading of meat, poultry, and egg products.
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68 Fed. Reg. 41110 (July 10, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are sponsoring a public meeting on September 16, 2003. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States positions that will be discussed at the 25th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses to be held in Bonn, Germany, November 3-7, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 41109 (July 10, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, of the Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on September 3, 2003, to review the agenda items and to receive comments on all issues coming before the Twenty-sixth Session of the Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products, which will be held in Alesund, Norway, October 13-17, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 37954 (June 26, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 391, 590, and 592). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its regulations to change the fees that it charges meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, importers, and exporters for providing voluntary inspection services, overtime and holiday inspection services, identification services, certification services, and laboratory services. The Agency is raising the fees for voluntary base time and holiday and overtime inspection services. The Food Safety Inspection Service is also decreasing the fee for laboratory services because of greater efficiencies realized.
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68 Fed. Reg. 37730 (June 25, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 320 and 381). This final rule announces that the Food Safety Inspection Service intends to increase its enforcement of the registration and recordkeeping requirements to ensure that all businesses subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act and Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act that are required to be registered with the Food Safety Inspection Service and/or to maintain business records are properly doing so. The Food Safety Inspection Service is also informing the public that it has developed a new registration form. Because this form requires that registrants provide certain information that was not required on the previous form, all parties required to register, including those that are currently registered, must complete the new form and submit it to the Food Safety Inspection Service.
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68 Fed. Reg. 37069 (June 23, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will add Australia and New Zealand to the list of countries eligible to import poultry products into the United States.
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68 Fed. Reg. 34900 (June 11, 2003) (notice). The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection will hold a public meeting on June 23-24, 2003, to review and discuss the following issues: Impact of Bio-security Issues on Industry; Delivery of Training; and State Review Methods. Three subcommittees of the full committee will also meet on June 23, 2003, to work on the issues discussed during the full Committee session.
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68 Fed. Reg. 34373 (June 9, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing the dollar limitations on sales of meat and meat food products and poultry products to hotels, restaurants, and similar institutions that do not disqualify a store for exemption from Federal inspection requirements. For calendar year 2003 the dollar limitation for meat and meat food products is remaining at $47,000.00 and for poultry products at $41,600. 00.
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68 Fed. Reg. 34207 (June 6, 2003) (interim final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 430). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its regulations to require that official establishments that produce certain ready-to-eat meat and poultry productsprevent product adulteration by the pathogenic environmental contaminant Listeria monocytogenes. In particular, under these regulations, establishments that produce ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that are exposed to the environment after lethality treatments and that support the growth of L. monocytogenes will be required to have, in their hazard analysis and critical control point plans, or in their sanitation standard operating procedures or other prerequisite programs, controls that prevent product adulteration by L. monocytogenes. The establishments must share with FSIS data and information relevant to their controls for L. monocytogenes. The establishments also must furnish FSIS with information on the production volume of products affected by the regulations.
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68 Fed. Reg. 33905 (June 6, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture is sponsoring a public meeting on June 12, 2003. The purpose of this meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the Twenty-sixth Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission which will be held in Rome, Italy from June 30 to July 7, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 33444 (June 4, 2003) (notice). This notice informs the public of the sanitary and phytosanitary standard-setting activities of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. This notice also provides a list of other standard-setting activities of Codex, including commodity standards, guidelines, codes of practice, and revised texts. This notice, which covers the time periods from June 1, 2002, to May 31, 2003, and June 1, 2003, to May 31, 2004, seeks comments on standards currently under consideration and recommendations for new standards.
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68 Fed. Reg. 31679 (May 28, 2003) (notice). This notice announces the Food Safety and Inspection Service's intention to request an extension for and revision to a currently approved information collection package regarding Pathogen Reduction and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System. In addition, the Food Safety and Inspection Service plans to incorporate the currently approved Eschericha coli (E. coli) contamination in beef products information collection package into the revised and extended Pathogen Reduction/HACCP information collection package.
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68 Fed. Reg. 22576 (April 29, 2003) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 319 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending its regulations to permit the use of any safe and suitable binder or antimicrobial agent in the production of meat and poultry products that are subject to a standard of identity or composition that provides for the use of such ingredients. The use of these ingredients must be consistent with any limitations or conditions of use prescribed in applicable Food Safety and Inspection Service or Food and Drug Administration regulations.
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68 Fed. Reg. 22357 (April 28, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing that it will hold a public meeting on the use of epidemiological data, principles, and techniques, and of other public health tools, to help it achieve its public health goals. The Agency will describe how it responds to epidemiological evidence developed by States or other federal agencies; how it uses that evidence; how it conducts food safety investigations; and, in appropriate circumstances, initiates regulatory actions based on such evidence.
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68 Fed. Reg. 18593 (April 16, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing its intention to make publicly available the results of its testing for Salmonella on livestock and poultry carcasses and in raw ground meat and poultry products. The Agency also intends to post the results of all completed sampling sets on its Web site.
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68 Fed. Reg. 18560 (April 16, 2003) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 317 and 381). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend its nutrition labeling regulations to change the definition of ``meal-type'' products to allow for nutrient content claims on multiple-serve food containers, to adopt the definition of ``main dish'' used by the Food and Drug Administration, and to define how meal-type products and main dishes should be nutritionally labeled. The change in the definition of meal-type products would allow nutrient content claims to be based on 100 grams of product rather than on the serving size, which is based on the Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed for the food components.
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68 Fed. Reg. 14574 (March 26, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service, will hold an international food safety conference on March 27, 2003. The purpose of the conference is to share perspectives on various food safety issues, discuss strategies to improve food safety worldwide and serve as a forum for fostering relationships to promote food safety.
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68 Fed. Reg. 12338 (March 14, 2003) (notice). The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration , Department of Health and Human Services, are sponsoring a public meeting on March 20, 2003, to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items that will be discussed at the 31st Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling, which will be held in Ottawa, Canada, on April 28-May 2, 2003.
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68 Fed. Reg. 11008 (March 7, 2003) (notice of withdrawal of advance notice of proposed rulemaking) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 317 and 327). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is withdrawing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking entitled ``Product Labeling: Defining United States Cattle and United States Fresh Beef Products,'' which was published in the Federal Register on August 7, 2001. The country-of-origin labeling provisions in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 supplant the issues raised in the advance notice of proposed rulemaking and, therefore, the the advance notice of proposed rulemaking is being withdrawn.
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68 Fed. Reg. 8858 (February 26, 2003) (proposed rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 391, 590, and 592). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to change the fees that it charges meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, importers, and exporters for providing voluntary inspection services, overtime and holiday inspection services, identification services, certification services, and laboratory services. The Agency is proposing to raise the fees for voluntary base time and holiday and overtime inspection services.
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68 Fed. Reg. 6973 (February 12, 2003) (notice). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing new procedures for meat and poultry official establishments, egg products official plants, and companies that manufacture and sell technology to official establishments and plants, to notify the Agency of any new technology intended for use in official establishments and plants, so that the Agency has an opportunity to decide whether the new technology requires a pre-use review. The Agency believes that facilitation of the use of new technology represents an important means of improving the safety of meat, poultry, and egg products.
View this notice: |
68 Fed. Reg. 6109 (February 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is making available, and requesting public comment on, its draft risk assessment for Listeria in deli- and hot dog-type meat and poultry products that are exposed to the environment post-lethality. The Food Safety and Inspection Service has conducted this risk assessment, addressing both Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species (spp), to examine the effectiveness of testing food contact surfaces and sanitation on product contamination and the subsequent risk of illness, and to evaluate the effectiveness of other interventions (e.g., post-processing interventions).
View this notice: |
67 Fed. Reg. 540 (January 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is addressing comments that it received on its August 6, 2001 Federal Register notice, ``Residue Testing Procedures.'' That notice announced that the Food Safety and Inspection Service was changing the action that it would take when livestock or poultry that are presented for slaughter come from producers and others who have previously marketed such animals that contain violative levels of chemical residues . FSIS will now post on its website, the names and addresses of the sellers of livestock and poultry who the Food and Drug Administration has determined are responsible for the repeated sale of livestock or poultry that contain violative levels of chemical residues.
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Fed. Reg. 540 (January 6, 2003) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is addressing comments that it received on its August 6, 2001 Federal Register notice, ``Residue Testing Procedures.'' That notice announced that the Food Safety and Inspection Service was changing the action that it would take when livestock or poultry that are presented for slaughter come from producers and others who have previously marketed such animals that contain violative levels of chemical residues . FSIS will now post on its website, the names and addresses of the sellers of livestock and poultry who the Food and Drug Administration has determined are responsible for the repeated sale of livestock or poultry that contain violative levels of chemical residues.
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67 Fed. Reg. 78217 (December 23, 2002) (notice). This notice announces that the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting on January 8, 2003, to present and receive comment on draft United States positions on all issues coming before the Thirty-fifth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene, which will be held in Orlando, Florida, January 27-February 1, 2003.
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67 Fed. Reg. 68985 (November 14, 2002) (notice). This notice announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service will hold a one day summit on Listeria monocytogenes on November 18, 2002. The summit will provide a forum for experts from government, academia, industry and consumer organizations to discuss current government thinking and activities regarding L. monocytogenes.
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67 Fed. Reg. 62325 (October 7, 2002) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Part 417). The Food Safety and Inspection Service is publishing this final rule so that manufacturers of beef products are informed of the Agency's views about the application of the hazard analysis and critical control point system regulations to contamination with Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7.
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67 Fed. Reg. 61767 (October 2, 2002) (final rule) (to be codified at 9 C.F.R. Parts 331 and 381). This final rule amends the Federal meat and poultry products inspection regulations by terminating the designation of the State of Maine under Titles I, II, and IV of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and under sections 1 through 4, 6 through 11, and 12 through 22 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act.
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67 Fed. Reg. 54404 (August 22, 2002) (notice). This notices announces that the Food Safety and Inspection Service is making its current Security Guidelines for Food Processors available. These guidelines were developed to assist Federal- and State-inspected plants that produce meat, poultry, and egg products in identifying ways to strengthen their security plans to protect against acts of bioterrorism.
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67 Fed. Reg. 43271 (June 27, 2002) (notice). This notice announces the Food Safety and Inspection Service's intention to request information collection regarding consumer food safety practices, concerns, and awareness, specific to meat, poultry, and egg products. This notice also announces that the FSIS is publishing a notice of request for new information collection regarding industry practices specific to meat, poultry, and egg products.
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67 Fed. Reg. 2399 (Jan. 17, 2002) (notice). This publication announces the availability of an FSIS paper on possible actions to minimize human exposure to meat from cattle that could contain the infective agent that causes Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred to as "Mad Cow Disease." The FSIS paper follows the recent publication of a risk assessment analysis conducted by the Harvard University School of Public Health. FSIS requests comments on both the paper and the Harvard analysis. Copies of the current thinking paper and the Harvard risk assessment are available at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/default.htm.
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