G/TBT/N/USA/667/Rev.1  
15 September 2020  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Department of 
Agriculture (USDA)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the no tification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading.  ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Food 
product labels; Meat and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, 
geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS 0207); Meat, meat products 
and other animal produce (ICS 67.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  Prior Label 
Approval System: Expansion of Generic Label Approval (11 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Proposed rule - The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) 
is proposing to amend its inspection regul ations to expand the circumstances under which 
FSIS will generically approve the labels of meat, poultry, and egg products. FSIS is also 
proposing to cease evaluating generically approved labels submitted to FSIS for review.  
7. Objective and rationale, in cluding the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection   
8. Relevant documents:   
• 85 Federal Register (FR) 56538, 13 November 2020; Title 9 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) Parts 352, 354 and 412:    
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-09-14/ht ml/2020 -17340.htm   
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-09-14/pdf/2020 -17340.pdf  
This proposed rule is identified by Docket Number FSIS -2019-0019. The D ocket Folder is 
available on Regulations.gov  at https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FSIS -2019-0019 
and provides access to primary and supporting documents as well as comments received. 
Documents are also accessible from Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number.  G/TBT/N/USA/667/Rev.1  
 
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  WTO Members and their stakehold ers are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT 
Enquiry Point . Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and 
their stakeholders will be shared with the regulator and will also be su bmitted to the 
Docket  on Regulations.gov  if received within the comment period.  
Previous rulemaking actions notified as G/TBT/N/USA/667  and G/TBT/N/ USA/667/Add.1  
are identified by Docket Number FSIS -2005-0016.   The Docket Folder is available on 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FSIS -2005-0016 and pro vides access to primary 
and supporting documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible 
from Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number.  
FSIS has also published a proposed rule  that, if finalized as proposed, would permit 
generic approval for egg product labels (83 FR 6314, 13 February 2018); accessible at 
URLs https://www.govinfo.g ov/content/pkg/FR -2018-02-13/html/2018 -00425.htm  and 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2018-02-13/pdf/2018 -00425.pdf , notified as 
G/SPS/N/USA/2985  issued 1 March 2018.   This proposed rule is identified by Docket 
Number FSIS -2005-0015. The Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov  at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FSIS -2005-0015 and provides access to primary 
and supporting documents as well as comme nts received.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  13 November 2020  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone or fax 
numbers  and email and website address es, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/USA/20_5438_00_e.pdf