National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, 29944-29945 [E7-10321]

Download as PDF 29944 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 103 / Wednesday, May 30, 2007 / Notices 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 interest 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. Done at Washington, DC on May 24, 2007. F. Edward Scarbrough, U.S. Manager for Codex. [FR Doc. E7–10326 Filed 5–29–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food Safety and Inspection Service [Docket No. FSIS–2007–0019] National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice of public meeting. sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: This notice announces that the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) will hold public meetings of the full Committee and subcommittees on June 4–8, 2007. The Committee will discuss: (1) Determination of Cooking Parameters for Safe Seafood for Consumers, (2) Assessment of the Food Safety Importance of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, (3) Determination of the Most Appropriate Technologies for the Food Safety and Inspection Service to Adopt in Performing Routine and Baseline VerDate Aug<31>2005 19:13 May 29, 2007 Jkt 211001 Microbiological Analyses, and (4) Parameters for Inoculated Pack Challenge Study Protocols. The full Committee will hold open meetings on Monday, June 4, 2007, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., and Friday, June 8, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Subcommittee on Determination of Cooking Parameters for Safe Seafood for Consumers will hold an open meeting on Tuesday, June 5, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Subcommittee on Determination of the Most Appropriate Technologies for the Food Safety and Inspection Service to Adopt in Performing Routine and Baseline Microbiological Analyses will hold open meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5–6, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Subcommittee on Assessment of the Food Safety Importance of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis will hold open meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, June 6–7, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. DATES: The June 5–7, 2007, subcommittee meetings will be held at the Aerospace Building, 901 ‘‘D’’ St., SW., Rooms 369–371, Washington, DC 20024. The June 4 and June 8, 2007, full Committee meetings will be held in the conference room at the south end of the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cafeteria located in the South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250. All documents related to the full Committee meetings will be available for public inspection in the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Docket Room, 300 12th Street, SW., Room 102, Cotton Annex Building, Washington, DC 20250, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, as soon as they become available. The NACMCF documents will also be available on the Internet at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/ 2007_Notices_Index/. FSIS will finalize an agenda on or before the meeting dates and post it on the FSIS Internet Web page at https:// www.fsis.usda.gov/News/ Meetings_&_Events/. Please note that the meeting agenda is subject to change due to the time required for Committee discussions, thus, sessions could start or end earlier or later than anticipated. Please plan accordingly if you would like to attend a particular session or participate in a public comment period. Also, the official transcripts of the June 4 and 8, 2007, full Committee meetings, when they become available, will be kept in the FSIS Docket Room at the above address and will also be posted on https://www.fsis.usda.gov/ About/NACMCF_Meetings/. ADDRESSES: PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 The mailing address for the contact person below, Karen Thomas-Sharp is: Food Safety and Inspection Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Public Health Science, Aerospace Center, Room 333, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250– 3700. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Persons interested in making a presentation, submitting technical papers, or providing comments at the June 4 and/or June 8, plenary sessions should contact Karen Thomas-Sharp, phone (202) 690–6620, Fax (202) 690– 6334, e-mail address: karen.thomassharp@fsis.usda.gov, or at the mailing address above. Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special accommodations should notify Mrs. Thomas-Sharp by May 29, 2007. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The NACMCF was established in 1988, in response to a recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences for an interagency approach to microbiological criteria for foods, and in response to a recommendation of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, as expressed in the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 1988. The Charter for the NACMCF is available for viewing on the FSIS Internet Web page at https:// www.fsis.usda.gov/About/ NACMCF_Charter/. The NACMCF provides scientific advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on public health issues relative to the safety and wholesomeness of the U.S. food supply, including development of microbiological criteria and review and evaluation of epidemiological and risk assessment data and methodologies for assessing microbiological hazards in foods. The Committee also provides advice to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Departments of Commerce and Defense. Dr. Curt Mann, Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA, is the Committee Chair; Dr. Robert E. Brackett, Director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), is the Vice-Chair; and Gerri Ransom, FSIS, is the Executive Secretariat. At the subcommittee meetings the week of June 5–7, 2007, the groups will discuss: E:\FR\FM\30MYN1.SGM 30MYN1 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 103 / Wednesday, May 30, 2007 / Notices • The determination of cooking parameters for safe seafood for consumers, • Assessment of the food safety importance of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, and • The determination of the most appropriate technologies for the Food Safety and Inspection Service to adopt in performing routine and baseline microbiological analyses. sroberts on PROD1PC70 with NOTICES Documents Reviewed by NACMCF FSIS intends to make available to the public all materials that are reviewed and considered by NACMCF regarding its deliberations. Generally, these materials will be made available as soon as possible after the full Committee meeting. Further, FSIS intends to make these materials available in electronic format on the FSIS Web page, as well as in hard copy format in the FSIS Docket Room. Often, an attempt is made to make the materials available at the start of the full Committee meeting when sufficient time is allowed in advance to do so. Disclaimer: NACMCF documents and comments posted on the FSIS Web site are electronic conversions from a variety of source formats. In some cases, document conversion may result in character translation or formatting errors. The original document is the official, legal copy. In order to meet the electronic and information technology accessibility standards in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, NACMCF may add alternate text descriptors for non-text elements (graphs, charts, tables, multimedia, etc.). These modifications only affect the online copies of the documents. Copyrighted documents will not be posted on the FSIS Web site, but will be available for inspection in the FSIS Docket Room. 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 interest to constituents and VerDate Aug<31>2005 19:13 May 29, 2007 Jkt 211001 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. Done at Washington, DC on May 24, 2007. David P. Goldman, Acting Administrator. [FR Doc. E7–10321 Filed 5–29–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food Safety and Inspection Service [Docket No. FSIS 2007–0018] Disposition of Hogs and Chickens From Farms Identified as Having Received Pet Food Scraps Contaminated With Melamine and Melamine-Related Compounds and Offered for Slaughter Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), USDA. ACTION: Notice and request for comments. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is publishing this notice to articulate its position on the slaughter for human food of hogs and chickens from farms identified as having purchased or otherwise received pet food scraps that contain melamine and melamine-related compounds. The contaminated pet food scraps were used to supplement animal feed on farms in several States. The results of an interim safety/risk assessment indicate that, based on currently available data and information, the consumption of pork, poultry, eggs, and domestic fish products from animals inadvertently fed animal feed contaminated with melamine and melamine-related compounds is very unlikely to pose a human health risk. PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 29945 Based on the findings of the interim safety/risk assessment, as well as the results of validated testing for melamine concentration that has been conducted on tissue samples of hogs and chickens exposed to the adulterated feed, FSIS has determined that pork and poultry products from all animals identified as having been fed animal feed containing contaminated pet food scraps are ‘‘not adulterated’’ and are thus eligible to receive the mark of inspection. All such animals that were being held on farms have been released and may be offered for slaughter for human food. DATES: Comments on this Federal Register notice must be received by August 28, 2007. ADDRESSES: FSIS invites interested persons to submit comments on the findings in 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 https://www.regulations.gov and, in the ‘‘Search for Open Regulations’’ box, select ‘‘Food Safety and Inspection Service’’ from the agency drop-down menu, then click on ‘‘Submit.’’ In the Docket ID column, select FDMS Docket Number FSIS–2007–0018 to submit or view public comments and to view supporting and related materials available electronically. • Mail, including floppy disks or CD– ROM’s, and hand-or courier-delivered items: Send to Docket Clerk, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, 300 12th Street, SW., Room 102 Cotton Annex, Washington, DC 20250. • Electronic mail: fsis.regulationscomments@fsis.usda.gov. Individuals who do not wish FSIS to post their personal contact information — mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number — on the Internet may leave the information off their comments. All submissions received by mail or electronic mail must include the Agency name and docket number FSIS– 2007–0018. All comments submitted in response to this notice, as well as research and background information used by FSIS in developing this document, will be available for public inspection in the FSIS Docket Room at the address listed above between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Comments will also be posted on the Agency’s Web site at https:// www.fsis.usda.gov/. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Daniel Engeljohn, Deputy Assistant E:\FR\FM\30MYN1.SGM 30MYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29944-29945]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10321]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service

[Docket No. FSIS-2007-0019]


National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the National Advisory Committee on 
Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) will hold public meetings 
of the full Committee and subcommittees on June 4-8, 2007. The 
Committee will discuss: (1) Determination of Cooking Parameters for 
Safe Seafood for Consumers, (2) Assessment of the Food Safety 
Importance of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, (3) 
Determination of the Most Appropriate Technologies for the Food Safety 
and Inspection Service to Adopt in Performing Routine and Baseline 
Microbiological Analyses, and (4) Parameters for Inoculated Pack 
Challenge Study Protocols.

DATES: The full Committee will hold open meetings on Monday, June 4, 
2007, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., and Friday, June 8, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The 
Subcommittee on Determination of Cooking Parameters for Safe Seafood 
for Consumers will hold an open meeting on Tuesday, June 5, 2007, from 
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Subcommittee on Determination of the Most 
Appropriate Technologies for the Food Safety and Inspection Service to 
Adopt in Performing Routine and Baseline Microbiological Analyses will 
hold open meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5-6, 2007, from 8:30 
a.m. to 5 p.m. The Subcommittee on Assessment of the Food Safety 
Importance of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis will hold 
open meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, June 6-7, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The June 5-7, 2007, subcommittee meetings will be held at 
the Aerospace Building, 901 ``D'' St., SW., Rooms 369-371, Washington, 
DC 20024. The June 4 and June 8, 2007, full Committee meetings will be 
held in the conference room at the south end of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture (USDA) cafeteria located in the South Building, 1400 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250. All documents related 
to the full Committee meetings will be available for public inspection 
in the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Docket Room, 300 12th 
Street, SW., Room 102, Cotton Annex Building, Washington, DC 20250, 
between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, as soon as they 
become available. The NACMCF documents will also be available on the 
Internet at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/2007_Notices_Index/.
    FSIS will finalize an agenda on or before the meeting dates and 
post it on the FSIS Internet Web page at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/News/
Meetings_&_Events/. Please note that the meeting agenda is subject to 
change due to the time required for Committee discussions, thus, 
sessions could start or end earlier or later than anticipated. Please 
plan accordingly if you would like to attend a particular session or 
participate in a public comment period.
    Also, the official transcripts of the June 4 and 8, 2007, full 
Committee meetings, when they become available, will be kept in the 
FSIS Docket Room at the above address and will also be posted on http:/
/www.fsis.usda.gov/About/NACMCF_Meetings/.
    The mailing address for the contact person below, Karen Thomas-
Sharp is: Food Safety and Inspection Service, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, Office of Public Health Science, Aerospace Center, Room 
333, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-3700.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Persons interested in making a 
presentation, submitting technical papers, or providing comments at the 
June 4 and/or June 8, plenary sessions should contact Karen Thomas-
Sharp, phone (202) 690-6620, Fax (202) 690-6334, e-mail address: 
karen.thomas-sharp@fsis.usda.gov, or at the mailing address above. 
Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special 
accommodations should notify Mrs. Thomas-Sharp by May 29, 2007.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The NACMCF was established in 1988, in response to a recommendation 
of the National Academy of Sciences for an interagency approach to 
microbiological criteria for foods, and in response to a recommendation 
of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, as 
expressed in the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies 
Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 1988. The Charter for the NACMCF is 
available for viewing on the FSIS Internet Web page at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/About/NACMCF_Charter/.
    The NACMCF provides scientific advice and recommendations to the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
on public health issues relative to the safety and wholesomeness of the 
U.S. food supply, including development of microbiological criteria and 
review and evaluation of epidemiological and risk assessment data and 
methodologies for assessing microbiological hazards in foods. The 
Committee also provides advice to the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention and the Departments of Commerce and Defense.
    Dr. Curt Mann, Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA, is the 
Committee Chair; Dr. Robert E. Brackett, Director of the Food and Drug 
Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), 
is the Vice-Chair; and Gerri Ransom, FSIS, is the Executive 
Secretariat.
    At the subcommittee meetings the week of June 5-7, 2007, the groups 
will discuss:

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     The determination of cooking parameters for safe seafood 
for consumers,
     Assessment of the food safety importance of Mycobacterium 
avium subspecies paratuberculosis, and
     The determination of the most appropriate technologies for 
the Food Safety and Inspection Service to adopt in performing routine 
and baseline microbiological analyses.

Documents Reviewed by NACMCF

    FSIS intends to make available to the public all materials that are 
reviewed and considered by NACMCF regarding its deliberations. 
Generally, these materials will be made available as soon as possible 
after the full Committee meeting. Further, FSIS intends to make these 
materials available in electronic format on the FSIS Web page, as well 
as in hard copy format in the FSIS Docket Room. Often, an attempt is 
made to make the materials available at the start of the full Committee 
meeting when sufficient time is allowed in advance to do so.
    Disclaimer: NACMCF documents and comments posted on the FSIS Web 
site are electronic conversions from a variety of source formats. In 
some cases, document conversion may result in character translation or 
formatting errors. The original document is the official, legal copy.
    In order to meet the electronic and information technology 
accessibility standards in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, 
NACMCF may add alternate text descriptors for non-text elements 
(graphs, charts, tables, multimedia, etc.). These modifications only 
affect the online copies of the documents.
    Copyrighted documents will not be posted on the FSIS Web site, but 
will be available for inspection in the FSIS Docket Room.

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 on-line 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 interest 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.

    Done at Washington, DC on May 24, 2007.
David P. Goldman,
Acting Administrator.
 [FR Doc. E7-10321 Filed 5-29-07; 8:45 am]
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