FSIS Releases Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis of Certain BSE Protection Measures & Extends Comment Period
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a notice announcing the availability of, and requesting public comment by May 7, 2004 on, its preliminary regulatory impact analysis (PRIA) of three interim final rules and one notice issued by FSIS on January 12, 2004 regarding additional protection measures in response to the detection of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, also known as mad cow disease) in the U.S.
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The interim final rules covered by the PRIA are: (1) prohibition of use of certain specified risk materials for human food and requirements for the disposition of non-ambulatory disabled cattle, (2) meat produced by advanced meat/bone separation machinery and meat recovery (AMR) systems, and (3) prohibition of use of certain stunning devices used to immobilize cattle during slaughter. The one notice concerned its BSE surveillance program, which announced that FSIS will no longer pass and apply the mark of inspection to carcasses and parts from cattle tested for BSE until they are determined to be negative.
FSIS also announced that it is extending the comment period for its three interim final rules until May 7, 2004 so that their comment closing date coincides with the closing date of the PRIA comment period.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 01/13/04 news, 04011310, for BP summary of these three interim final rules, the notice on the BSE surveillance program, as well as another notice declaring an extraordinary emergency because of BSE.)
-written comments on the interim final rules and on the PRIA are due May 7 ,2004.
FSIS Contact - Quita Bowman (202) 690-0486
FSIS PRIA available at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FRPubs/03-025N/BSE_Analysis.pdf
FSIS notice (D/N 03-025N, FR Pub 04/07/04) available athttp://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-7925.pdf