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The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA or we) is
reopening the comment period for the
proposed rule, published in the Federal
Register of October 19, 2005, entitled
‘‘Cheeses and Related Cheese Products;
Proposal to Permit the Use of
Ultrafiltered Milk.’’ The proposed rule
would amend our regulations to provide
for the use of fluid ultrafiltered (UF)
milk in the manufacture of standardized
cheeses and related cheese products.
FDA is reopening the comment period
to update comments and to receive any
new information.
DATES: FDA is reopening the comment
period on the proposed rule published
on October 19, 2005 (70 FR 60751), for
SUMMARY:
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which we had reopened the comment
period as recently as December 30, 2019
(84 FR 71834). The reopened comment
period ended on March 30, 2020.
Through this document, we are
reopening the comment period again.
Submit either electronic or written
comments by August 13, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
as follows. Please note that late,
untimely filed comments will not be
considered. Electronic comments must
be submitted on or before August 13,
2020. The https://www.regulations.gov
electronic filing system will accept
comments until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time
at the end of August 13, 2020.
Comments received by mail/hand
delivery/courier (for written/paper
submissions) will be considered timely
if they are postmarked or the delivery
service acceptance receipt is on or
before that date.
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Submit electronic comments in the
following way:
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https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Comments submitted electronically,
including attachments, to https://
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the docket unchanged. Because your
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solely responsible for ensuring that your
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identified, as confidential, if submitted
as detailed in ‘‘Instructions.’’
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the Docket No. FDA–
2008–P–0086 for ‘‘Cheeses and Related
Cheese Products; Proposal to Permit the
Use of Ultrafiltered Milk.’’ Received
comments, those filed in a timely
manner (see ADDRESSES), will be placed
in the docket and, except for those
submitted as ‘‘Confidential
Submissions,’’ publicly viewable at
https://www.regulations.gov or at the
Dockets Management Staff between 9
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copy, which will have the claimed
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in the body of your comments and you
must identify this information as
‘‘confidential.’’ Any information marked
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except in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20
and other applicable disclosure law. For
more information about FDA’s posting
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FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access
the information at: https://
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-201509-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
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Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug
Administration, 5001 Campus Dr.,
College Park, MD 20740, 240–402–2371.
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In the
Federal Register of October 19, 2005,
we proposed to amend our regulations
to provide for the use of fluid UF milk
in the manufacture of standardized
cheeses and related cheese products.
Specifically, the proposed rule, if
finalized, for standardized cheeses and
related cheese products, would: (1)
Amend the definitions of ‘‘milk’’ and
‘‘nonfat milk’’ in § 133.3 (21 CFR 133.3)
to provide for ultrafiltration of milk and
nonfat milk and (2) define ultrafiltered
milk and ultrafiltered nonfat milk in
§ 133.3 as raw or pasteurized milk or
nonfat milk that is passed over one or
more semipermeable membranes to
partially remove water, lactose,
minerals, and water-soluble vitamins
without altering the casein-to-whey
protein ratio of the milk or nonfat milk
and resulting in a liquid product. FDA
also proposed that the name of such
treated milk be ‘‘ultrafiltered milk’’ or
‘‘ultrafiltered nonfat milk,’’ as
appropriate. Consequently, when this
type of milk is used, it would be
declared in the ingredient statement of
the finished food as ‘‘ultrafiltered milk’’
or ‘‘ultrafiltered nonfat milk.’’
This proposal was issued in response
to citizen petitions from the American
Dairy Products Institute and the
National Cheese Institute, the Grocery
Manufacturers of America, Inc., and the
National Food Processors Association.
Interested persons were originally given
until January 17, 2006, to comment. We
subsequently reopened the comment
period to seek further comment on two
specific issues raised by the comments
concerning the proposed ingredient
declaration (72 FR 70251, December 11,
2007); the reopened comment period
was scheduled to end on February 11,
2008. In the Federal Register of
February 11, 2008 (73 FR 7692), we
extended the comment period until
April 11, 2008.
In the Federal Register of August 14,
2017 (82 FR 37815), we announced the
availability of a guidance for industry
entitled ‘‘Ultrafiltered Milk in the
Production of Standardized Cheeses and
Related Cheese Products.’’ In the
guidance, we notified manufacturers
who wish to use UF milk or UF nonfat
milk in the production of standardized
cheeses and related cheese products of
our intent to exercise enforcement
discretion regarding the use of fluid UF
milk and fluid UF nonfat milk in the
production of standardized cheeses and
related cheese products, provided that
the physical, chemical, and organoleptic
properties of the cheese or cheese
product are not affected. We also stated
our intent to exercise enforcement
discretion with respect to the labeling of
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fluid UF milk and fluid UF nonfat milk
in recognition of the costs and logistics
involved in label changes; however, we
encouraged industry to identify these
ingredients as ‘‘ultrafiltered milk’’ and
‘‘ultrafiltered nonfat milk’’ to the extent
feasible and appropriate. We further
explained that we intend to exercise
enforcement discretion until we have
completed a rulemaking process
amending our regulations with respect
to the issues covered by the guidance or
announced our determination not to
proceed with such a rulemaking.
In the Federal Register of December
30, 2019, we announced another
reopening of the comment period to
receive information and further
comment on current industry practices
regarding the use of fluid UF milk and
fluid UF nonfat milk in the manufacture
of standardized cheeses and related
cheese products, and the declaration of
fluid UF milk and fluid UF nonfat milk
when used as ingredients in
standardized cheeses and related cheese
products. The reopened comment
period ended on March 30, 2020.
Following publication of the
December 30, 2019, document
reopening the comment period for the
proposed rule, we received requests to
allow interested persons additional time
to comment. In conjunction with the
requests, we are providing an additional
120 days for persons to respond fully to
FDA’s specific requests for comments
and to allow potential respondents to
thoroughly evaluate and address
pertinent issues. Therefore, we are
reopening the comment period until
August 13, 2020.
Dated: April 7, 2020.
Lowell J. Schiller,
Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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counseling options available to
educational institutions, the Department
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its Voluntary Education Programs
regulation to cite current law and to
remove the requirement that an
educational institution must have a DoD
installation student population of at
least 20 military students before it can
be authorized access on a DoD
installation that is not overseas.
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or before May 15, 2020.
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identified by docket number and/or
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number and title, by any of the
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for comments and other submissions
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viewing on the internet at https://
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received without change, including any
personal identifiers or contact
information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary
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Purpose of the Rule
The Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Personnel and Readiness
provides policy and oversight of DoD’s
Voluntary Education (VolEd) Program,
including the Tuition Assistance (TA)
program. The VolEd program is
authorized in 10 U.S.C. 2006a and 2007,
and DoD policy is in DoD Instruction
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Programs’’ (last updated on July 7, 2014
and available at https://
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Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/
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educational institutions, that each
institution must sign, are provided in
the companion DoD VolEd Partnership
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
(available in DoD Instruction 1322.25,
Appendix to Enclosure 3; further
information available at https://
www.dodmou.com/). For the purposes
of this part, an educational institution is
defined as ‘‘a college, university, or
other institution of higher education.’’
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In accordance with the current
regulation and DoD MOU, educational
institutions must have a domestic DoD
installation student population of at
least 20 military students to request
permission for access to a DoD
installation that is not overseas. The
policy does not apply to overseas DoD
installations. Numerous institutions,
using both private and public forums,
have contacted the Office of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force
Education and Training to communicate
their concern over this policy inequity.
The specific inequity is that currently
all participating educational institutions
do not have face-to-face counseling
access. DoD determined that action was
needed to rectify this policy inequity so
that DoD policy is consistent and
equitable, regardless of the type of
educational institution or student
population size.
Currently, 1,339 institutions of the
approximately 2,700 DoD MOU
educational institutions have between 1
and 19 students, meaning that they have
no options for face-to-face counseling on
military installations. Most institutions
operating under this MOU manage their
student counseling by virtual means.
Removal of the 20-student requirement
will ensure equity of student counseling
options for all DoD MOU educational
institutions. Adding a face-to-face
option could change institutional
processes to reflect travel or setting up
local offices. However, any such process
change would be entirely optional on
the part of the educational institution.
Acknowledging that the size of the
military installation may directly impact
the number of students enrolled with a
given educational institution, this
change will also ensure that educational
institutions have the opportunity to
provide equal services to all Service
members, including those assigned to
smaller or more remote military
installations.
Accordingly, this rule proposes to
amend 32 CFR part 68 (last updated on
May 15, 2014 at 79 FR 27737) to remove
the 20 student requirement and allow
educational institutions to provide
academic services at DoD installations,
regardless of the number of military
students enrolled at that installation.
The number of additional schools
availing themselves of on-base access as
a result of the proposed change is
predicted to be small, as more than 80
percent of Service members receiving
TA attend the 25 largest DoD MOU
schools, many of which are already
afforded access to military installations
under the current rule. This policy
change ensures that every DoD MOU
educational institution is treated
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
21 CFR Part 133
[Docket No. FDA-2008-P-0086]
Cheeses and Related Cheese Products; Proposal To Permit the Use
of Ultrafiltered Milk; Reopening the Comment Period
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is reopening the
comment period for the proposed rule, published in the Federal Register
of October 19, 2005, entitled ``Cheeses and Related Cheese Products;
Proposal to Permit the Use of Ultrafiltered Milk.'' The proposed rule
would amend our regulations to provide for the use of fluid
ultrafiltered (UF) milk in the manufacture of standardized cheeses and
related cheese products. FDA is reopening the comment period to update
comments and to receive any new information.
DATES: FDA is reopening the comment period on the proposed rule
published on October 19, 2005 (70 FR 60751), for
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which we had reopened the comment period as recently as December 30,
2019 (84 FR 71834). The reopened comment period ended on March 30,
2020. Through this document, we are reopening the comment period again.
Submit either electronic or written comments by August 13, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments as follows. Please note that late,
untimely filed comments will not be considered. Electronic comments
must be submitted on or before August 13, 2020. The https://www.regulations.gov electronic filing system will accept comments until
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of August 13, 2020. Comments
received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions)
will be considered timely if they are postmarked or the delivery
service acceptance receipt is on or before that date.
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted
electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information,
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
If you want to submit a comment with confidential
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public,
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').
Written/Paper Submissions
Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for written/paper
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified,
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No.
FDA-2008-P-0086 for ``Cheeses and Related Cheese Products; Proposal to
Permit the Use of Ultrafiltered Milk.'' Received comments, those filed
in a timely manner (see ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and,
except for those submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly
viewable at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Dockets Management
Staff between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' We will review
this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in our
consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the claimed
confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be available for
public viewing and posted on https://www.regulations.gov. Submit both
copies to the Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish your name
and contact information to be made publicly available, you can provide
this information on the cover sheet and not in the body of your
comments and you must identify this information as ``confidential.''
Any information marked as ``confidential'' will not be disclosed except
in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and other applicable disclosure law.
For more information about FDA's posting of comments to public dockets,
see 80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access the information at:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number, found in brackets in
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jessie Zhao, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, 5001 Campus Dr.,
College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-2371.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of October 19, 2005,
we proposed to amend our regulations to provide for the use of fluid UF
milk in the manufacture of standardized cheeses and related cheese
products. Specifically, the proposed rule, if finalized, for
standardized cheeses and related cheese products, would: (1) Amend the
definitions of ``milk'' and ``nonfat milk'' in Sec. 133.3 (21 CFR
133.3) to provide for ultrafiltration of milk and nonfat milk and (2)
define ultrafiltered milk and ultrafiltered nonfat milk in Sec. 133.3
as raw or pasteurized milk or nonfat milk that is passed over one or
more semipermeable membranes to partially remove water, lactose,
minerals, and water-soluble vitamins without altering the casein-to-
whey protein ratio of the milk or nonfat milk and resulting in a liquid
product. FDA also proposed that the name of such treated milk be
``ultrafiltered milk'' or ``ultrafiltered nonfat milk,'' as
appropriate. Consequently, when this type of milk is used, it would be
declared in the ingredient statement of the finished food as
``ultrafiltered milk'' or ``ultrafiltered nonfat milk.''
This proposal was issued in response to citizen petitions from the
American Dairy Products Institute and the National Cheese Institute,
the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc., and the National Food
Processors Association. Interested persons were originally given until
January 17, 2006, to comment. We subsequently reopened the comment
period to seek further comment on two specific issues raised by the
comments concerning the proposed ingredient declaration (72 FR 70251,
December 11, 2007); the reopened comment period was scheduled to end on
February 11, 2008. In the Federal Register of February 11, 2008 (73 FR
7692), we extended the comment period until April 11, 2008.
In the Federal Register of August 14, 2017 (82 FR 37815), we
announced the availability of a guidance for industry entitled
``Ultrafiltered Milk in the Production of Standardized Cheeses and
Related Cheese Products.'' In the guidance, we notified manufacturers
who wish to use UF milk or UF nonfat milk in the production of
standardized cheeses and related cheese products of our intent to
exercise enforcement discretion regarding the use of fluid UF milk and
fluid UF nonfat milk in the production of standardized cheeses and
related cheese products, provided that the physical, chemical, and
organoleptic properties of the cheese or cheese product are not
affected. We also stated our intent to exercise enforcement discretion
with respect to the labeling of
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fluid UF milk and fluid UF nonfat milk in recognition of the costs and
logistics involved in label changes; however, we encouraged industry to
identify these ingredients as ``ultrafiltered milk'' and
``ultrafiltered nonfat milk'' to the extent feasible and appropriate.
We further explained that we intend to exercise enforcement discretion
until we have completed a rulemaking process amending our regulations
with respect to the issues covered by the guidance or announced our
determination not to proceed with such a rulemaking.
In the Federal Register of December 30, 2019, we announced another
reopening of the comment period to receive information and further
comment on current industry practices regarding the use of fluid UF
milk and fluid UF nonfat milk in the manufacture of standardized
cheeses and related cheese products, and the declaration of fluid UF
milk and fluid UF nonfat milk when used as ingredients in standardized
cheeses and related cheese products. The reopened comment period ended
on March 30, 2020.
Following publication of the December 30, 2019, document reopening
the comment period for the proposed rule, we received requests to allow
interested persons additional time to comment. In conjunction with the
requests, we are providing an additional 120 days for persons to
respond fully to FDA's specific requests for comments and to allow
potential respondents to thoroughly evaluate and address pertinent
issues. Therefore, we are reopening the comment period until August 13,
2020.
Dated: April 7, 2020.
Lowell J. Schiller,
Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2020-07749 Filed 4-14-20; 8:45 am]
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