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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS–2013–0031]
Codex Alimentarius Commission:
Meeting of the Codex Committee on
Food Hygiene
Office of the Under Secretary
for Food Safety, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Office of the Under
Secretary for Food Safety, U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), and
the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), are sponsoring
a public meeting on October 23, 2013.
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 Forty-fifth Session of
the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene
(CCFH) of the Codex Alimentarius
Commission (Codex), which will be
held in Ha Noi, Vietnam, from
November 11–15, 2013. The Under
Secretary for Food Safety and the FDA
recognize the importance of providing
interested parties the opportunity to
obtain background information on the
45th Session of CCFH and to address
items on the agenda.
DATES: The public meeting is scheduled
for October 23, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will
take place in the Jamie L. Whitten
Building, United States Department of
Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue
SW., Room 107–A, Washington, DC
20250.
Documents related to the 45th Session
of the CCFH will be accessible via the
World Wide Web at the following
address: https://www.codexalimentarius.
org/meetings-reports/en/.
Jenny Scott, U.S. Delegate to the
CCFH, invites U.S. interested parties to
submit their comments electronically to
the following email address
Jenny.Scott@fda.hhs.gov.
Call-In Number:
If you wish to participate in the
public meeting for the 45th session of
the CCFH by conference call, please use
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the call-in number and participant code
listed below.
Call-in Number: 1–888–858–2144
Participant Code: 6208658
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information about the 45th
Session on the CCFH contact: Jenny
Scott, Senior Advisor, Office of Food
Safety, Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, 5100 Paint Branch
Parkway, HFS–300, Room 3B–014,
College Park, MD 20740–3835;
Telephone: (240) 402–2166, Fax: (202)
436–2632, Email: Jenny.Scott@
fda.hhs.gov.
For further information about the
public meeting contact: Barbara McNiff,
U.S. Codex Office, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW., Room 4861, South
Building, Washington, DC, 20250;
Telephone: (202)690–4719, Fax: (202)
720–3157, Email: Barbara.McNiff@fsis.
usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Codex Alimentarius (Codex) was
established in 1963 by two United
Nations organizations, the Food and
Agriculture Organization and the World
Health Organization. Through adoption
of food standards, codes of practice, and
other guidelines developed by its
committees, and by promoting their
adoption and implementation by
governments, Codex seeks to protect the
health of consumers and ensure fair
practices in the food trade.
The Codex Committee on Food
Hygiene is responsible for:
(a) Drafting basic provisions on food
hygiene applicable to all food;
(b) Considering, amending if
necessary, and endorsing provisions on
hygiene prepared by Codex commodity
committees and contained in Codex
commodity standards;
(c) Considering, amending if
necessary, and endorsing provisions on
hygiene prepared by Codex commodity
committees and contained in Codex
codes of practice unless, in specific
cases, the Commission has decided
otherwise
(d) Drafting provisions on hygiene
applicable to specific food items or food
groups, whether coming within the
terms of reference of a Codex
commodity committee or not;
(e) Considering specific hygiene
problems assigned to it by the
Commission;
(f) Suggesting and prioritizing areas
where there is a need for
microbiological risk assessment at the
international level and to develop
questions to be addressed by the risk
assessors; and
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(g) Considering microbiological risk
management matters in relation to food
hygiene, including food irradiation, and
in relation to the risk assessment of
FAO/WHO.
The CCFH is hosted by the United
States.
Issues To Be Discussed at the Public
Meeting
The following items on the Agenda
for the 45th Session of the CCFH will be
discussed during the public meeting:
• Matters Referred by the Codex
Alimentarius Commission and/or
Other Codex Committees and Task
Forces to the Food Hygiene
Committee
• Matters arising from the Work of FAO,
WHO and other International
Intergovernmental Organizations
(a) Progress Report on the Joint FAO/
WHO Expert Meetings on
Microbiological Risk Assessment
(JEMRA) and Related Matters
(b) Information from the World
Organisation for Animal Health
(OIE)
• Proposed Draft Guidelines for Control
of Specific Zoonotic Parasites in
Meat: Trichinella spiralis and
Cysticercus bovis at Step 4
• Proposed Draft Revision of the Code
of Hygienic Practice for Spices and
Dried Aromatic Plants at Step 4
• Proposed Code of Practice for Low
Moisture Foods at Step 4
• Discussion paper on occurrence and
control of parasites
• Discussion paper on the need to
revise the Code of Hygienic Practice
for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
• Other Business and Future Work
(a) Forward Work plan and criteria for
evaluating and prioritizing new
work
(b) New Work
Each issue listed will be fully
described in documents distributed, or
to be distributed, by the Codex
Secretariat prior to the Committee
meeting. Members of the public may
access or request copies of these
documents (see ADDRESSES).
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Public Meeting
At the October 23, 2013, public
meeting, draft U.S. positions on the
agenda items will be described and
discussed, and attendees will have the
opportunity to pose questions and offer
comments. Written comments may be
offered at the meeting or sent to the U.S.
Delegate for the 45th Session of the
CCFH, Jenny Scott (see ADDRESSES).
Written comments should state that they
relate to activities of the 45th Session of
the CCFH.
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USDA Nondiscrimination Statement
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) prohibits discrimination in all
its programs and activities on the basis
of race, color, national origin, gender,
religion, age, disability, political beliefs,
sexual orientation, and marital or family
status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to
all programs.)
Persons with disabilities who require
alternative means for communication of
program information (Braille, large
print, audiotape, etc.) should contact
USDA’s Target Center at (202) 720–2600
(voice and TTY).
To file a written complaint of
discrimination, write USDA Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights,
1400 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–9410 or call
(202) 720–5964 (voice and TTY). USDA
is an equal opportunity provider and
employer.
Additional Public Notification
FSIS will announce this notice online
through the FSIS Web page located at
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/
fsis/topics/regulations/federal-register.
FSIS also will 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 email 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/wps/portal/fsis/
programs-and-services/emailsubscription-service. Options range from
recalls to export information to
regulations, directives and notices.
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Done at Washington, DC, on September 20,
2013.
Mary Frances Lowe,
U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius.
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Forest Service
Black Hills National Forest Advisory
Board; Meeting
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Black Hills National
Forest Advisory Board (Board) will meet
in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Board
is established consistent with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act of
1972 (5 U.S.C. App. II) (FACA), and the
Forest and Rangeland Renewable
Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16
U.S.C. 1600 et.seq.) (RPA), the National
Forest Management Act of 1976 (16
U.S.C. 1612) (NFMA), and the Federal
Public Lands Recreation Enhancement
Act (Pub. L. 108–447) (REA). The
purpose of the Board is to provide
advice and recommendations on a broad
range of forest issues such as forest plan
revisions or amendments and forest
health, including fire and mountain
pine beetle epidemics, travel
management, forest monitoring and
evaluation, recreation fees, and sitespecific projects having forest-wide
implications. The meeting is open to the
public. The purpose of the meeting is:
(1) To provide information to, and
receive comments and
recommendations from the Board
regarding recreational facility
operations, motorized travel permit fees,
mountain pine beetle management
actions; and (2) to provide an update to
the Board regarding management
actions resulting from completion of the
Cave Management Environmental
Impact Statement.
DATES: The meeting will be held
October 16, 2013, at 1:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Forest Service Mystic Ranger
District Office, 8221 South Highway 16,
Rapid City SD. Written comments may
be submitted as described under
Supplementary Information. All
comments, including names and
addresses when provided, are placed in
the record and are available for public
inspection and copying. The public may
inspect comments received at the
Supervisor’s Office, Black Hills National
Forest, 1019 North Fifth Street, Custer,
SD. Please call ahead to Scott Jacobson,
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS-2013-0031]
Codex Alimentarius Commission: Meeting of the Codex Committee on
Food Hygiene
AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are
sponsoring a public meeting on October 23, 2013. 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 Forty-fifth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene
(CCFH) of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), which will be held
in Ha Noi, Vietnam, from November 11-15, 2013. The Under Secretary for
Food Safety and the FDA recognize the importance of providing
interested parties the opportunity to obtain background information on
the 45th Session of CCFH and to address items on the agenda.
DATES: The public meeting is scheduled for October 23, 2013 from 1:00
p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will take place in the Jamie L. Whitten
Building, United States Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW., Room 107-A, Washington, DC 20250.
Documents related to the 45th Session of the CCFH will be
accessible via the World Wide Web at the following address: https://www.codexalimentarius.org/meetings-reports/en/.
Jenny Scott, U.S. Delegate to the CCFH, invites U.S. interested
parties to submit their comments electronically to the following email
address Jenny.Scott@fda.hhs.gov.
Call-In Number:
If you wish to participate in the public meeting for the 45th
session of the CCFH by conference call, please use the call-in number
and participant code listed below.
Call-in Number: 1-888-858-2144
Participant Code: 6208658
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about the 45th
Session on the CCFH contact: Jenny Scott, Senior Advisor, Office of
Food Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food
and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, HFS-300, Room 3B-
014, College Park, MD 20740-3835; Telephone: (240) 402-2166, Fax: (202)
436-2632, Email: Jenny.Scott@fda.hhs.gov.
For further information about the public meeting contact: Barbara
McNiff, U.S. Codex Office, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Room 4861,
South Building, Washington, DC, 20250; Telephone: (202)690-4719, Fax:
(202) 720-3157, Email: Barbara.McNiff@fsis.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Codex Alimentarius (Codex) was established in 1963 by two
United Nations organizations, the Food and Agriculture Organization and
the World Health Organization. Through adoption of food standards,
codes of practice, and other guidelines developed by its committees,
and by promoting their adoption and implementation by governments,
Codex seeks to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair
practices in the food trade.
The Codex Committee on Food Hygiene is responsible for:
(a) Drafting basic provisions on food hygiene applicable to all
food;
(b) Considering, amending if necessary, and endorsing provisions on
hygiene prepared by Codex commodity committees and contained in Codex
commodity standards;
(c) Considering, amending if necessary, and endorsing provisions on
hygiene prepared by Codex commodity committees and contained in Codex
codes of practice unless, in specific cases, the Commission has decided
otherwise
(d) Drafting provisions on hygiene applicable to specific food
items or food groups, whether coming within the terms of reference of a
Codex commodity committee or not;
(e) Considering specific hygiene problems assigned to it by the
Commission;
(f) Suggesting and prioritizing areas where there is a need for
microbiological risk assessment at the international level and to
develop questions to be addressed by the risk assessors; and
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(g) Considering microbiological risk management matters in relation
to food hygiene, including food irradiation, and in relation to the
risk assessment of FAO/WHO.
The CCFH is hosted by the United States.
Issues To Be Discussed at the Public Meeting
The following items on the Agenda for the 45th Session of the CCFH
will be discussed during the public meeting:
Matters Referred by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and/or
Other Codex Committees and Task Forces to the Food Hygiene Committee
Matters arising from the Work of FAO, WHO and other
International Intergovernmental Organizations
(a) Progress Report on the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on
Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) and Related Matters
(b) Information from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
Proposed Draft Guidelines for Control of Specific Zoonotic
Parasites in Meat: Trichinella spiralis and Cysticercus bovis at Step 4
Proposed Draft Revision of the Code of Hygienic Practice for
Spices and Dried Aromatic Plants at Step 4
Proposed Code of Practice for Low Moisture Foods at Step 4
Discussion paper on occurrence and control of parasites
Discussion paper on the need to revise the Code of Hygienic
Practice for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Other Business and Future Work
(a) Forward Work plan and criteria for evaluating and prioritizing
new work
(b) New Work
Each issue listed will be fully described in documents distributed,
or to be distributed, by the Codex Secretariat prior to the Committee
meeting. Members of the public may access or request copies of these
documents (see ADDRESSES).
Public Meeting
At the October 23, 2013, public meeting, draft U.S. positions on
the agenda items will be described and discussed, and attendees will
have the opportunity to pose questions and offer comments. Written
comments may be offered at the meeting or sent to the U.S. Delegate for
the 45th Session of the CCFH, Jenny Scott (see ADDRESSES). Written
comments should state that they relate to activities of the 45th
Session of the CCFH.
USDA Nondiscrimination Statement
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination
in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color,
national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs,
sexual orientation, and marital or family status. (Not all prohibited
bases apply to all programs.)
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for
communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape,
etc.) should contact USDA's Target Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and
TTY).
To file a written complaint of discrimination, write USDA Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice and TTY). USDA
is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Additional Public Notification
FSIS will announce this notice online through the FSIS Web page
located at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/regulations/federal-register.
FSIS also will 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 email 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/wps/portal/fsis/programs-and-services/email-subscription-service.
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 September 20, 2013.
Mary Frances Lowe,
U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius.
[FR Doc. 2013-23503 Filed 9-25-13; 8:45 am]
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