Comment from Burke Stone

Document ID: FSIS-2008-0027-0005
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Food Safety And Inspection Service
Received Date: August 29 2008, at 11:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: September 9 2008, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: August 28 2008, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: September 29 2008, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 806e5e89
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This is comment on Rule

Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Muscle Cuts of Beef (Including Veal), Lamb, Chicken, Goat, and Pork; Ground Beef, Ground Lamb, Ground Chicken, Ground Goat, and Ground Pork

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We are a small ground beef processor, currently we sell 1 pound "chubs" to retail stores. These "chubs" are approximatly 4 1/2 inches long. They are running at 75- 80 chubs per minute. Currently we print Sell By information on these chubs along the seam where it is the most easily seen by the consumer. As the regulation is currently written we are not allowed to use country abreviations. Our package will be something like this. Product of: United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand Sell By 00/00/000 With abreviations we can print as follows. Product of: U.S. Can, Aus, N.Z. Sell By 00/00/0000 The first option will require us to reduce the size of the print to a lot smaller size, then we will have to worry about it being ledgable to those of us who can't see as well as others. The second option will fit on the chub fairly easy and will allow us to print it in a larger font. Please consider allowing the use of established country abreviations. The cost to change all of our chub film will be more than our small firm can handle.