G/SPS/N/USA/1940/Add.2  
 
4 June 2014   
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Meas ures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 2 June 2014, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption;  Advantame, Final 
Rule 
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide 
for the safe use of advantame as a non -nutritive sweetener and flavor enhancer in foods gener ally, 
except meat and poultry. This action i s in response to a petition filed by Ajinomoto Co., Inc.  
The notice published on 21 May 2014 in Federal Register (79 FR 29078) at 
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentD etail;D=FDA -2009-F-0303-0008. 
The food additive petition published on 9 July 2009 (74 FR 35871) at 
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA -2009-F-0303-0001. 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/USA/14_2545_00_e.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[X] Notification of adoption,  publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed 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 comments 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 circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : This rule is  effective 21 May 2014. For filing of objections. Submit 
either electronic or written objections and requests for a hearing by 20 June 2014.  G/SPS /N/USA/1940/Add.2  
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ]  National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Poin t. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of 
other body:  
You may submit either electronic or written objections and requests for a hearing identified by 
Docket No. FDA -2009-F-0303, by any of the following methods:  
Submit electronic objectio ns in the following way: Federal eRulemaking Portal: 
http://www.regulations.gov . Follow the instructions for submitting comments.  
Submit written objections in the following way: Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for pa per 
submissions): Division of Dockets Management (HFA -305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 
Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.  
Felicia M. Ellison, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS -265), Food and Drug 
Administration, 5100 Paint  Branch Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740 -3835, 240 -402-1264.  
Text available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250; Tel: +(1 202) 
720 1301; Fax: +(1 202) 720 0433; E -mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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