[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 10 (Friday, January 14, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2284-2285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-928]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
9 CFR Parts 381 and 424
[Docket No. 97-076C]
Irradiation of Meat Food Products; Technical Correction
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a
technical correction to its final rule permitting the use of ionizing
radiation for treating refrigerated or frozen, uncooked meat food and
poultry products.
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 22, 2000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel L. Engeljohn, Ph.D., Director,
Regulation Development and Analysis Division, Office of Policy, Program
Development, and Evaluation, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture (202) 720-5627.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 23, 1999, FSIS published in the Federal Register a
final rule permitting the use of ionizing radiation for treating
refrigerated or frozen, uncooked meat, meat byproducts, and certain
other meat food products to reduce levels of foodborne pathogens and to
extend shelf-life (64 FR 72150). Also in that rule, FSIS revised the
regulations governing the irradiation of poultry products so that they
will be as consistent as possible with the regulations for the
irradiation of meat food products. In this document, FSIS is making a
correction to the amendatory instructions that appeared in the final
rule.
The final rule included amendatory instructions for consolidating
the revised regulations governing the irradiation of poultry products
and the new regulations governing the irradiation of meat food products
into a new, single Sec. 424.22(c). FSIS also intended to issue
amendatory instructions to remove all of the existing regulations
governing the irradiation of poultry products, which are contained in
Sec. 381.19, 381.135, and 381.149. FSIS inadvertently omitted the
instruction to remove Sec. 381.149 from the regulations. FSIS is
issuing that instruction in this technical correction document.
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List of Subjects
9 CFR Part 381
Food labeling, Poultry and poultry products, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Signs and symbols.
9 CFR Part 424
Food additives, Food packaging, Meat inspection, Poultry and
poultry products.
Accordingly, title 9, chapter III, of the Code of Federal
Regulations is amended as follows:
PART 381--POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION REGULATIONS
1. The authority citation for part 381 would continue to read as
follows:
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 138f, 450; 21 U.S.C. 451-470; 7 CFR 2.18,
2.53.
Sec. 381.149 [Removed]
2. Section 381.149 is removed.
Done in Washington, DC on: January 11, 2000.
Thomas J. Billy,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 00-928 Filed 1-13-00; 8:45 am]
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