Subject: Public Meeting Proposed Rule on the Availability of Lists of Retail Consignees During Meat or Poultry Product Recalls [Docket No. FSIS-2006-0009]
Date: April 21, 2006 at 12:03 pm PST
[Federal Register: April 6, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 66)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 17384-17385]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr06ap06-16]
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Proposed Rules
Federal Register
________________________________________________________________________
This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
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[[Page 17384]]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
9 CFR Part 390
[Docket No. FSIS-2006-0009]
Public Meeting To Discuss the Proposed Rule on the Availability
of Lists of Retail Consignees During Meat or Poultry Product Recalls
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will hold a
public meeting to solicit comments on its proposal to make available to
the public lists of the retail consignees of meat and poultry products
that have voluntarily been recalled by a federally inspected meat or
poultry establishment if product has been distributed to the retail
level. FSIS has proposed to routinely post these retail consignee lists
on its Web site as they are developed by the Agency during its recall
verification activities.
There will be a five-minute time limit for each commenter who
presents at the meeting.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on April 24, 2006, from 9:30
a.m. to 12 p.m. Registration for the meeting will begin at 9 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will take place in the conference room at
the south end of the U.S. Department of Agriculture cafeteria located
in the South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC,
20250. Meeting attendees must enter the South Building at Wing 2, C
Street, SW.
FSIS will finalize an agenda on or before the meeting date and will
post it on the FSIS Internet Web page http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News/Meetings_&_Events/.
Interested persons may submit comments on this
notice. Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: This Web site provides the
ability to type short comments directly into the comment field on this
Web page or attach a file for lengthier comments. Go to http://www.regulations.gov
and, in the ``Search for Open Regulations'' box, ....snip......end
full text;
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Frame/FrameRedirect.asp?main=http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FRPubs/2006-0009.htm
:clap: :clap: :clap:
GAO
United States Government Accountability Office
Report to Congressional Requesters
October 2004 FOOD SAFETY
USDA and FDA Need
to Better Ensure
Prompt and Complete
Recalls of Potentially
Unsafe Food
snip...
Appendix II
Federal Actions Associated with the
Discovery of an Animal in the United States
Infected with BSE
snip...
Recall Was
Complicated by
Inaccurate Distribution
Lists and Mixing of
Potentially
Contaminated and
Noncontaminated Beef...page 45
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0551.pdf
TSS
Date: April 21, 2006 at 12:03 pm PST
[Federal Register: April 6, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 66)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 17384-17385]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr06ap06-16]
========================================================================
Proposed Rules
Federal Register
________________________________________________________________________
This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
========================================================================
[[Page 17384]]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
9 CFR Part 390
[Docket No. FSIS-2006-0009]
Public Meeting To Discuss the Proposed Rule on the Availability
of Lists of Retail Consignees During Meat or Poultry Product Recalls
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting; request for comments.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will hold a
public meeting to solicit comments on its proposal to make available to
the public lists of the retail consignees of meat and poultry products
that have voluntarily been recalled by a federally inspected meat or
poultry establishment if product has been distributed to the retail
level. FSIS has proposed to routinely post these retail consignee lists
on its Web site as they are developed by the Agency during its recall
verification activities.
There will be a five-minute time limit for each commenter who
presents at the meeting.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on April 24, 2006, from 9:30
a.m. to 12 p.m. Registration for the meeting will begin at 9 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will take place in the conference room at
the south end of the U.S. Department of Agriculture cafeteria located
in the South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC,
20250. Meeting attendees must enter the South Building at Wing 2, C
Street, SW.
FSIS will finalize an agenda on or before the meeting date and will
post it on the FSIS Internet Web page http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News/Meetings_&_Events/.
Interested persons may submit comments on this
notice. Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: This Web site provides the
ability to type short comments directly into the comment field on this
Web page or attach a file for lengthier comments. Go to http://www.regulations.gov
and, in the ``Search for Open Regulations'' box, ....snip......end
full text;
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Frame/FrameRedirect.asp?main=http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FRPubs/2006-0009.htm
:clap: :clap: :clap:
GAO
United States Government Accountability Office
Report to Congressional Requesters
October 2004 FOOD SAFETY
USDA and FDA Need
to Better Ensure
Prompt and Complete
Recalls of Potentially
Unsafe Food
snip...
Appendix II
Federal Actions Associated with the
Discovery of an Animal in the United States
Infected with BSE
snip...
Recall Was
Complicated by
Inaccurate Distribution
Lists and Mixing of
Potentially
Contaminated and
Noncontaminated Beef...page 45
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0551.pdf
TSS