[Federal Register: April 19, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 75)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 20041-20042]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr19ap06-28]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
9 CFR Parts 317, 381, and 442
[Docket No. 04-041C; FDMS Docket Number FSIS-2005-0032]
RIN 0583-AD17
Determining Net Weight Compliance for Meat and Poultry Products
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: This document corrects the preamble and regulatory text to a
proposed rule published in the Federal Register of March 28, 2006,
concerning net weight compliance for meat and poultry products. These
corrections reference the revised version of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) Handbook 133, dated January 2005. The
March 28, 2006, proposed rule incorrectly referenced the NIST Handbook
133, dated January 2002. The standards in the January 2005 NIST
Handbook 133 that are being proposed to be incorporated by reference in
FSIS' meat and poultry inspection regulations remain substantively
unchanged from those currently incorporated by reference in FSIS'
regulations and are no different than the standards in the January 2002
version.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert C. Post, PhD, Director,
Labeling and Consumer Protection Staff, Office of Policy, Program, and
Employee Development, FSIS, by telephone at (202) 205-0279 or by fax at
(202) 205-3625.
Correction
In the proposed rule, entitled, ``Determining Net Weight Compliance
for Meat and Poultry Products,'' (FSIS Docket No. 04-041P; FDMS Docket
Number FSIS-2005-0032), beginning on page 15340 in the March 28, 2006,
Federal Register make the following corrections. In the SUPPLEMENTARY
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INFORMATION section, on page 15340, in the 3rd column, correct the
sentence beginning ``In January 2002,'' to read ``In January 2005 * *
*'' On page 15342, in the 1st column, in Sec. 442.2(a), correct
``January 2002'' to read ``January 2005.''
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.
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Done in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2006.
Barbara J. Masters,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6-5866 Filed 4-18-06; 8:45 am]
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