# Food Standards: Requirements for Processed Meat and Poultry Products Named by Use of an Expressed Nutrient Content Claim and a Standardized TermExtension of Comment Period

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Proposed Rule
- **Published:** May 28, 1996
- **Citation:** 61 FR 26470

## Text

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the
comment period for the proposed rule, ``Food Standards: Requirements
for Processed Meat and Poultry Products Named by Use of an Expressed
Nutrient Content Claim and a Standardized Term'' for an additional 180
days.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 25, 1996.

ADDRESSES: An original and two copies of written comments should be
sent to: FSIS Docket Clerk, Docket No. 92-024P, Room 4352, South
Agriculture Building, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-3700. Oral comments
should be directed to Mr. Charles R. Edwards, Director, Product
Assessment Division, at (202) 254-2565.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Charles R. Edwards, Director,
Product Assessment Division, Regulatory Programs, Food Safety and
Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
20250-3700, (202) 254-2565.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FSIS and the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) have initiated reviews of their regulations pertaining to food
standards of identity and composition. Each agency's review responds in
part to President Clinton's March 4, 1995, memorandum to heads of
departments and agencies, titled ``Regulatory Reinvention Initiative.''
This memorandum directed departments and agencies to conduct a page-by-
page review of all of their reguations and eliminate or revise those
that are outdated or otherwise in need of reform.
On December 29, 1995, FSIS published a proposed rule ``Food
Standards: Requirements for Processed Meat and Poultry Products Named
by Use of an Expressed Nutrient Content Claim and a Standardized Term''
(60 FR 67474). The rule proposes to establish a general definition and
standard of identity for standardized meat and poultry products that
have been modified to qualify for use of certain expressed nutrient
content claims as part of the product name.
Also, on December 29, 1995, FDA published an Advance Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) ``Food Standards of Identity, Quality, and
Fill of Containers; Common or Usual Name Regulations; Request for
Comments on Existing Regulations,'' (60 FR 67492). The ANPR solicited
comments from interested parties on whether FDA's regulations regarding
identity, quality, and fill of container for standardized foods and its
common or usual name regulations for nonstandardized foods should be
retained, revised, or revoked. The ANPR also addressed the need for
consistency between FSIS and FDA in the development and implementation
of food standards. FDA stated that it believes such harmonization will
help manufacturers comply with the requirements of both agencies. On
May 1, 1996, FDA extended the comment period on its ANPR until June 28,
1996, to receive comments only on the issue of FDA and FSIS
harmonization of food standards (61 FR 19220).
FSIS is also developing and will soon publish an ANPR that will
solicit information from the public on what direction further food
standards reform should take, including suggestions on whether to alter
or eliminate entirely the regulations for standardized meat and poultry
products.
FSIS's proposed rule and its soon-to-be-published ANPR encompass
the Agency's food standards review initiative. Therefore, to give the
public an opportunity to consider the proposed rule and ANPR
simultaneously, and in response to requests, FSIS is extending the
comment period 180 days for the proposed rule ``Food Standards:
Requirements for Processed Meat and Poultry Products Named by Use of an
Expressed Nutrient Content Claim and a Standardized Term.''

Done at Washington, DC, on: May 22, 1996.
Michael R. Taylor,
Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety.
[FR Doc. 96-13409 Filed 5-23-96; 1:41 pm]
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