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NACMCF to Hold Public Meetings
The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods
will hold public meetings June 4 - 8.
The full committee will meet on June 4, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., and on June 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the
conference room at the south end of the USDA South Building cafeteria, 1400 Independence Ave, SW.,
Washington, D.C.
The Subcommittee on Determination of Cooking Parameters for Safe Seafood for Consumers will meet on June 5,
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Subcommittee on Determination of the Most Appropriate Technologies for FSIS to Adopt in Performing Routine
and Baseline Microbiological Analyses will meet on June 5 and 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Subcommittee on Assessment of the Food Safety Importance of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis
will meet on June 6 and 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All subcommittee meetings will be held in Room 369 of the Aerospace Building, 901 D St., SW., Washington, D.C.
Agenda items are available on FSIS' Web site at https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/news/meetings_&_events/.
For further information about the public meetings, contact Karen Thomas-Sharp at (202) 690-6620 or by e-mail at
Karen.Thomas-Sharp@fsis.usda.gov.
Office of Food Safety to Hold Codex Public Meeting
USDA's Office of Food Safety will hold a public meeting on June 5. The purpose of this meeting is to provide
information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at
the 30th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), which will be held from July 2-7, in Rome, Italy.
The public meeting will be held from 1 to 4 p.m., in Room 107-A, Jamie L. Whitten Building, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, D.C.
Agenda items and documents relating to the 30th Session of CAC will be available on the Codex Alimentarius Web
site at https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp.
Interested parties should submit their comments relating to the meeting notice. Comments may be submitted by
e-mail to USCodex@fsis.usda.gov.
For further information about the public meeting, contact Jasmine Matthews, U.S. Codex Office, at (202) 205-7760.
FSIS Announces June Regulatory Education Sessions
FSIS has scheduled regulatory education sessions in North Carolina and Arkansas in June for the owners and
operators of small and very small plants.
A session will be held June 12 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Holiday Inn, Crabtree Valley Hotel, 4100
Glenwood Ave., Raleigh, NC, 27612. The session will cover a regulatory walk-through of sanitation performance
standard regulations and food defense.
On June 20, a session will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Holiday Inn Springdale, 1500 S. 48th
Street, Springdale, AR, 72762. This session will cover a regulatory walk-through of sanitation standard
operating procedures, and hazard analysis and critical control point and rules of practice regulations.
To register by phone, call (800) 336-3747. Online registration forms and information about upcoming sessions
can be found at https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/
Outreach_Sessions_SVS_Plants/index.asp.
FSIS has cancelled a regulatory education session scheduled for June 9 in Maryland.
FSIS Issues Directive on Executing Verification Activities under Export Verification Programs
FSIS issued Notice 33-07 on May 30 to ensure that inspection program personnel are following all steps in
Notice 19-06, Revised Notice for Certifying Beef Products under Export Verification (EV) Programs.
Inspection program personnel who are asked to sign an export certificate at a third-party facility (e.g., a
cold storage warehouse or other facility where the products to be exported are not processed) should be
particularly aware of the verification activities that they are to perform.
Third-party facilities assemble and export products that they receive from other establishments or facilities,
which may have been produced under an EV program. Inspection program personnel should verify that the
establishment that supplied the product to the third-party facility is eligible to produce product under an
EV program and that the product is eligible to be exported to the country listed on the export certificate
(see FSIS Notice 19-06).
Notice 33-07 is available on FSIS' Web site at
https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Regulations_&_Policies/
Notice_33-07/index.asp.
FSIS Makes Form 10,240.1 Available Online
FSIS issued a Federal Register notice on May 31 to announce the availability of an electronic
Web-based version of FSIS Form 10,240-1, Production Information on Post-Lethality Exposed Ready-to-Eat Products.
This form is available for the first time for online submission.
Form 10,240-1 will be used to collect information about the ready-to-eat products produced by establishments.
The agency is accepting comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.regulations.gov
or by e-mail at FSIS.RegulationsComments@usda.gov.
The notice is available on FSIS' Web site at
https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Regulations_&_Policies/
Federal_Register_Publications_&_Related_Documents/.
Export Requirement Updates
The Library of Export Requirements has been updated to reflect changes in export requirements for the following:
Honduras and Philippines.
Complete information can be found at
https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Regulations_&_Policies/
Export_Information/index.asp.
Preliminary IKE Scenario Available Online
FSIS has made preliminary Interactive Knowledge Exchange (IKE) scenario 02D-07, FSIS Verification of 9 CFR 416.2(d) Regarding Frozen Condensate in Product Freezers,
available for comment through June 8.
This scenario addresses what inspection program personnel should consider when verifying compliance with
9 Code of Federal Regulations 416.2(d), Ventilation.
The scenario can be viewed on FSIS' Web site at https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081031020607/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/
FSIS_Employees/IKE_Comment/index.asp.
If you have questions or comments regarding the preliminary IKE scenario, contact FSIS' Technical Service
Center at (800) 233-3935, or by e-mail at ike@fsis.usda.gov.
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