G/SPS/N/USA/2985/Add.2  
 
13 September 2021  
(21-6715) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 13 September 2021, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of  the United States of America . 
 
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Mandatory Inspection of Egg Substitutes and Freeze -Dried Egg Products Imported Into the 
United  States  
SUMMARY:  
On 7 September 2021, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published an additional Federal 
Register Notice (FRN) to provide notice on the mandatory inspection of egg substitutes and freeze -
dried egg products imported into the United States (86 FR 50013). This FRN provides additional 
information about the timelines that FSIS will follow relative to transitioning jurisdictional authority 
over and beginning inspection of these products.  
This FRN is further to the FRN published by FSIS on 29 October 2020, "Egg Products Inspection 
Regulations" (85 FR 68640), which, among other things, announced that FSIS would begin exercising 
jurisdiction ove r plants that produce egg substitutes and freeze -dried egg products on 30 October 
2023. This FRN provides information to foreign countries that already export these products to the 
United States, as well as countries interested in exporting these products to the United States, about 
submitting their equivalence documentation to FSIS so that the Agency can begin assessing their 
eligibility before 30 October 2023.  
The text of the FRN (85 FR 68640) published on 29 October 2020, can be accessed at 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-10-29/pdf/2020 -20151.pdf . 
DATES:  
Foreign countries currently exporting egg substitutes and/or freeze -dried egg products to the U S 
without an egg products inspection system equivalence determination by FSIS, as well as foreign 
countries not currently exporting that are interested in exporting such products to the United States 
under FSIS jurisdiction:  
− Must notify FSIS of their inten tion to export egg substitutes and freeze -dried egg products to the 
United States (Phase 1) by 30 October 2021;  
− Must submit a complete Self -Reporting Tool (SRT), including supporting documentation that 
demonstrates how a country's egg products inspection s ystem achieves an equivalent level of 
public health protection to FSIS' egg products inspection system (Phase 2), by 30 April 2022;  
− Must have submitted complete SRT responses and supporting documentation to FSIS, and FSIS 
must have determined that the SRT submission demonstrates that the country maintains an 
equivalent documented egg products inspection system to FSIS' egg products inspection system 
(Phase 3) by 30 October 2023.  
Foreign countries that currently maintain equivalent egg products inspection sy stems to FSIS' 
inspection system for egg products inspection ( i.e., Canada and the Netherlands) must submit an 
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  product groups by 1 October 2023, if these countries are currently exporting these products or wish 
to begin exporting them to the United States after 30 October 2023.  
Full text for the FRN (86 FR 50013) issued on 7 September 2021, is available at 
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/07/2021 -19264/mandatory -inspection -of-
egg-substitutes -and-freeze -dried-egg-products -imported -into-the-united . 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/SPS/USA/21_5684_00_e.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[X] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in pro posed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comm ents should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulatio n of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
Rachel Edelstein, Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Program Development. Tel: 
+(202)  205 0495  
Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-09-07/pdf/2021 -19264.pdf   
 
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