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Dated: March 29, 2007.
Lloyd C. Day,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing
Service.
[FR Doc. E7–6248 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS–2007–0012]
Risk-Based Inspection System
Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings on
risk-based inspection
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Food Safety and
Inspection (FSIS) will hold a series of
public meetings on specific topics
relating to risk-based inspection in
processing. The first meeting will focus
on the algorithm that the Agency
intends to use to compute risk-based
inspection levels for processing
establishments. A second meeting will
address the issue of attributing illness to
food. Production volume will be
discussed at the third meeting, and
industry data will be the focus of the
fourth meeting. The expert elicitation
process will be discussed at the fifth
meeting.
FSIS will hold the meetings on
the following dates:
Monday, April 2, 2007 from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. The first meeting will focus on
the algorithm the Agency intends to use
to compute risk-based inspection levels
for processing establishments.
Thursday, April 5, 2007 from 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. This meeting will discuss
the issue of attributing illness to food.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. Production volume will
be discussed at the third meeting.
Monday, April 30, 2007 from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. The topic of industry data is
the focus of the fourth meeting. A
technical meeting on the expert
elicitation process is also planned as the
fifth meeting. The date of this meeting
will be announced at a later time. Any
changes in meeting dates or times will
be posted on the FSIS Web site at
https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held
in Room 244 at George Mason
University, 3401 N. Fairfax Drive,
Arlington, VA 22201. Directions to the
site, the agenda, and other meeting
materials will be posted on the FSIS
Web site at https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
All meetings will be accessible
through conference call. Specific
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information concerning connections and
the telephone number will also be
posted on the FSIS Web site. Members
of the public should pre-register for the
meetings (see Background). Online
registration information is also located
on the Web site.
FSIS welcomes comments on the
topics to be discussed at the public
meetings. An issue paper concerning the
respective topics will be posted on the
FSIS Web site, https://www.fsis.usda.gov,
a week prior to each meeting, with the
exception of the meeting on attribution.
Comments may be submitted on the
meeting topics by any of the following
methods for 30 days from the date of
completion of each public meeting:
• Electronic mail: An e-mail box has
been established specifically for
comments for RBI. Comments can be
submitted to:
riskbasedinspection@fsis.usda.gov.
• Mail, including floppy disks or CD–
ROMs: Send to: Ellyn Blumberg, USDA,
FSIS, Aerospace Building, 3rd floor,
room 405, 14th and Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250.
• Hand or courier-delivered items:
Deliver to: Ellyn Blumberg at 901 D
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20024.
Have security guard call (202) 690–6520
in order to hand deliver items.
• Facsimile: Fax comments to: (202)
690–6519.
All submissions received must
include the Agency name and docket
number FSIS–2007–0012 and meeting
topic. The comments also will be posted
on the Agency’s Web site at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sally Fernandez for meeting information
at (202) 690–6524, Fax (202) 690–6519,
or e-mail sally.fernandez@fsis.usda.gov.
Keith Payne for technical information at
(202) 690–6522 or e-mail at
keith.payne@fsis.usda.gov. Persons
requiring a sign language interpreter or
other special accommodations should
notify the Agency contacts no later than
two weeks before the meeting, at the
numbers above or by e-mail.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
FSIS is the public health regulatory
agency in the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) responsible for
ensuring that the nation’s commercial
supply of meat, poultry, and egg
products is safe, wholesome, and
correctly labeled and packaged.
To better address the food safety and
public health challenges it faces, FSIS is
working to make its inspection system
more risk-based and to continue to
implement science-based policies.
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Although the Agency acknowledges that
some types of meat and poultry
products pose greater health risks than
others, and some establishments control
risks better than others, under the
current system of processing inspection,
a Consumer Safety Inspector visits every
plant at least once every shift to perform
a variety of verification procedures
scheduled by the Performance Based
Inspection System (PBIS.) PBIS
schedules inspection procedures the
same way in all processing plants,
regardless of the particular food safety
hazard associated with the products
produced or processes performed at one
plant versus another.
In July 2004, the Agency outlined the
basic features of a predictive model that
would permit FSIS to improve resource
allocation by considering the inherent
risks and risk control effectiveness of
the meat and poultry establishments
under Federal inspection. Since that
time, FSIS has continued to develop and
refine these ideas. In November 2005,
FSIS addressed the National Advisory
Committee on Meat and Poultry
Inspection (NAMCPI) on Agency
progress toward a Risk-Based Inspection
System (RBIS). In May 2006, the Agency
again addressed NAMCPI—this time on
ideas the Agency has on measuring risk
control effectiveness for RBI.
Reductions in the number of illnesses
attributed to the consumption of
adulterated meat and poultry products
can be achieved by placing greater
inspection and verification emphasis on
establishments whose processes, owing
to the nature and volume of their
production, require greater control of
the risks. FSIS believes that it can
improve public health by focusing its
efforts on processing establishments that
produce products presenting high
inherent risk and that are less effective
in controlling risks. At the same time,
FSIS can focus less on processing
establishments that produce products
that present low inherent risk and that
exercise effective risk control. In both
cases, establishments will continue to
be inspected on a per shift basis,
although the intensity of inspection will
vary, depending on risk factors.
In October 2006, FSIS held a public
meeting to present ideas about how the
Agency can develop these measures for
federally-inspected meat and poultry
processing establishments and to accept
stakeholder input.
This series of technical meetings that
the Agency is announcing will address
various dimensions of RBI and
protecting public health, and FSIS is
seeking input from all stakeholders on
these matters. Prior to each meeting,
FSIS will post on its Web site an issue
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paper on its current thinking concerning
the respective topic or other relevant
materials. At the meeting relating to
attributing illness to food, the agency
will invite experts to provide
information and views on the
definitions of attribution as well as state
of the art methods in collecting
attribution data. Each meeting will be
moderated to ensure that all participants
have ample opportunity to present their
views. A transcript of the meetings will
be taken and made available on the FSIS
Web site, https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
All comments received in response to
this notice will be considered part of the
public record.
Members of the public should preregister for the meeting. Online
registration information is located at
https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
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Additional Public Notification
Public awareness of all segments of
rulemaking and policy development is
important. Consequently, in an effort to
ensure that minorities, women and
persons with disabilities are aware of
this notice, FSIS will announce it online
through the FSIS Web page located at
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/
2007_Notices_Index/. FSIS will also
make copies of this Federal Register
publication available through the FSIS
Constituent Update, which is used to
provide information regarding FSIS
policies, procedures, regulations,
Federal Register notices, FSIS public
meetings, recalls, and other types of
information that could affect or would
be of interests to constituents and
stakeholders. The update is
communicated via Listserv, a free
electronic mail subscription service for
industry, trade and farm groups,
consumer interest groups, allied health
professionals, and other individuals
who have asked to be included. The
update is available on the FSIS Web
page. Through the Listserv and Web
page, FSIS is able to provide
information to a much broader and more
diverse audience. In addition, FSIS
offers an e-mail subscription service
which provides automatic and
customized access to selected food
safety news and information. This
service is available at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/news_and_events/
email_subscription/. Options range from
recalls to export information to
regulations, directives and notices.
Customers can add or delete
subscriptions themselves and have the
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option to password protect their
account.
David P. Goldman,
Acting Administrator.
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of the economics profession, business,
and government. This will be the
Committee’s fifteenth meeting.
Dated: March 26, 2007.
J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics
Administration
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory
Committee
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Economics and Statistics
Administration, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463 as amended by Pub. L. 94–409, Pub.
L. 96–523, Pub. L. 97–375 and Pub. L.
105–153), we are announcing a meeting
of the Bureau of Economic Analysis
Advisory Committee. The meeting’s
agenda focuses on the various aspects
involved with the measurement of
health care in the national economic
accounts.
DATES: Friday, May 4, 2007, the meeting
will begin at 9 a.m. and adjourn at
approximately 3:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
at the Bureau of Economic Analysis at
1441 L St., NW., Washington, DC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dorothy Andrake, Communications
Division Chief, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Washington, DC 20230;
telephone number: (202) 606–9630.
Public Participation: This meeting is
open to the public. Because of security
procedures, anyone planning to attend
the meeting must contact Dorothy
Andrake of BEA at (202) 606–9630 in
advance. The meeting is physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for foreign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Dorothy Andrake
at (202) 606–9630.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee was established September
2, 1999. The Committee advises the
Director of BEA on matters related to the
development and improvement of BEA’s
national, regional, industry, and
international economic accounts,
especially in areas of new and rapidly
growing economic activities arising
from innovative and advancing
technologies, and provides
recommendations from the perspectives
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Papahanaumokuakea Marine National
Monument, Hawai1i; Monument
Management Plan
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (FWS), Interior; National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; Preparation of a
management plan, and environmental
assessment.
AGENCIES:
SUMMARY: This notice advises the public
that NOAA, FWS, and the Department
of Land and Natural Resources, State of
Hawai1i (DLNR) intend to prepare a
Monument Management Plan
(Monument Plan) and associated
environmental assessment for the
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Papahanaumokuakea Marine National
Monument in the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands and surrounding
marine areas. The Monument Plan will
modify NOAA’s existing Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Proposed National
Marine Sanctuary Draft Management
Plan, and incorporate FWS refuge
comprehensive conservation planning
(CCP) requirements, DLNR planning
needs, and other elements to reflect the
area’s new status as a national
monument.
DATES: Any written comments must be
received by June 4, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Don Palawski, Monument Plan
Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Box
50167, Honolulu, HI 96850–5000; or via
e-mail to
PMNM_MMP_Comments@fws.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don
Palawski, Monument Plan Coordinator,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 300 Ala
Moana Boulevard, Box 50167,
Honolulu, HI 96850–5000; phone (808)
792–9560, or fax (808) 792–9585.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June
15, 2006, President George W. Bush
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS-2007-0012]
Risk-Based Inspection System
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings on risk-based inspection
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SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection (FSIS) will hold a series of
public meetings on specific topics relating to risk-based inspection in
processing. The first meeting will focus on the algorithm that the
Agency intends to use to compute risk-based inspection levels for
processing establishments. A second meeting will address the issue of
attributing illness to food. Production volume will be discussed at the
third meeting, and industry data will be the focus of the fourth
meeting. The expert elicitation process will be discussed at the fifth
meeting.
DATES: FSIS will hold the meetings on the following dates:
Monday, April 2, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The first meeting will
focus on the algorithm the Agency intends to use to compute risk-based
inspection levels for processing establishments.
Thursday, April 5, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This meeting will
discuss the issue of attributing illness to food.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Production volume
will be discussed at the third meeting.
Monday, April 30, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The topic of industry
data is the focus of the fourth meeting. A technical meeting on the
expert elicitation process is also planned as the fifth meeting. The
date of this meeting will be announced at a later time. Any changes in
meeting dates or times will be posted on the FSIS Web site at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held in Room 244 at George Mason
University, 3401 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201. Directions to
the site, the agenda, and other meeting materials will be posted on the
FSIS Web site at https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
All meetings will be accessible through conference call. Specific
information concerning connections and the telephone number will also
be posted on the FSIS Web site. Members of the public should pre-
register for the meetings (see Background). Online registration
information is also located on the Web site.
FSIS welcomes comments on the topics to be discussed at the public
meetings. An issue paper concerning the respective topics will be
posted on the FSIS Web site, https://www.fsis.usda.gov, a week prior to
each meeting, with the exception of the meeting on attribution.
Comments may be submitted on the meeting topics by any of the following
methods for 30 days from the date of completion of each public meeting:
Electronic mail: An e-mail box has been established
specifically for comments for RBI. Comments can be submitted to:
riskbasedinspection@fsis.usda.gov.
Mail, including floppy disks or CD-ROMs: Send to: Ellyn
Blumberg, USDA, FSIS, Aerospace Building, 3rd floor, room 405, 14th and
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250.
Hand or courier-delivered items: Deliver to: Ellyn
Blumberg at 901 D Street, SW., Washington, DC 20024. Have security
guard call (202) 690-6520 in order to hand deliver items.
Facsimile: Fax comments to: (202) 690-6519.
All submissions received must include the Agency name and docket
number FSIS-2007-0012 and meeting topic. The comments also will be
posted on the Agency's Web site at https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sally Fernandez for meeting
information at (202) 690-6524, Fax (202) 690-6519, or e-mail
sally.fernandez@fsis.usda.gov. Keith Payne for technical information at
(202) 690-6522 or e-mail at keith.payne@fsis.usda.gov. Persons
requiring a sign language interpreter or other special accommodations
should notify the Agency contacts no later than two weeks before the
meeting, at the numbers above or by e-mail.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
FSIS is the public health regulatory agency in the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) responsible for ensuring that the nation's
commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe,
wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.
To better address the food safety and public health challenges it
faces, FSIS is working to make its inspection system more risk-based
and to continue to implement science-based policies. Although the
Agency acknowledges that some types of meat and poultry products pose
greater health risks than others, and some establishments control risks
better than others, under the current system of processing inspection,
a Consumer Safety Inspector visits every plant at least once every
shift to perform a variety of verification procedures scheduled by the
Performance Based Inspection System (PBIS.) PBIS schedules inspection
procedures the same way in all processing plants, regardless of the
particular food safety hazard associated with the products produced or
processes performed at one plant versus another.
In July 2004, the Agency outlined the basic features of a
predictive model that would permit FSIS to improve resource allocation
by considering the inherent risks and risk control effectiveness of the
meat and poultry establishments under Federal inspection. Since that
time, FSIS has continued to develop and refine these ideas. In November
2005, FSIS addressed the National Advisory Committee on Meat and
Poultry Inspection (NAMCPI) on Agency progress toward a Risk-Based
Inspection System (RBIS). In May 2006, the Agency again addressed
NAMCPI--this time on ideas the Agency has on measuring risk control
effectiveness for RBI.
Reductions in the number of illnesses attributed to the consumption
of adulterated meat and poultry products can be achieved by placing
greater inspection and verification emphasis on establishments whose
processes, owing to the nature and volume of their production, require
greater control of the risks. FSIS believes that it can improve public
health by focusing its efforts on processing establishments that
produce products presenting high inherent risk and that are less
effective in controlling risks. At the same time, FSIS can focus less
on processing establishments that produce products that present low
inherent risk and that exercise effective risk control. In both cases,
establishments will continue to be inspected on a per shift basis,
although the intensity of inspection will vary, depending on risk
factors.
In October 2006, FSIS held a public meeting to present ideas about
how the Agency can develop these measures for federally-inspected meat
and poultry processing establishments and to accept stakeholder input.
This series of technical meetings that the Agency is announcing
will address various dimensions of RBI and protecting public health,
and FSIS is seeking input from all stakeholders on these matters. Prior
to each meeting, FSIS will post on its Web site an issue
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paper on its current thinking concerning the respective topic or other
relevant materials. At the meeting relating to attributing illness to
food, the agency will invite experts to provide information and views
on the definitions of attribution as well as state of the art methods
in collecting attribution data. Each meeting will be moderated to
ensure that all participants have ample opportunity to present their
views. A transcript of the meetings will be taken and made available on
the FSIS Web site, https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
All comments received in response to this notice will be considered
part of the public record.
Members of the public should pre-register for the meeting. Online
registration information is located at https://www.fsis.usda.gov.
Additional Public Notification
Public awareness of all segments of rulemaking and policy
development is important. Consequently, in an effort to ensure that
minorities, women and persons with disabilities are aware of this
notice, FSIS will announce it online through the FSIS Web page located
at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/2007_Notices_Index/. FSIS
will also make copies of this Federal Register publication available
through the FSIS Constituent Update, which is used to provide
information regarding FSIS policies, procedures, regulations, Federal
Register notices, FSIS public meetings, recalls, and other types of
information that could affect or would be of interests to constituents
and stakeholders. The update is communicated via Listserv, a free
electronic mail subscription service for industry, trade and farm
groups, consumer interest groups, allied health professionals, and
other individuals who have asked to be included. The update is
available on the FSIS Web page. Through the Listserv and Web page, FSIS
is able to provide information to a much broader and more diverse
audience. In addition, FSIS offers an e-mail subscription service which
provides automatic and customized access to selected food safety news
and information. This service is available at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
news_and_events/email_subscription/. Options range from recalls to
export information to regulations, directives and notices. Customers
can add or delete subscriptions themselves and have the option to
password protect their account.
David P. Goldman,
Acting Administrator.
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