G/SPS/N/USA/2488/Add.1  
 
14 March 2013  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 13 March 2013, is being circulated at the 
request of the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 HACCP Plan Reassessment for Not-Ready-To-Eat  Comminuted Poultry Products and Related 
Agency Verification Procedures 
 The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the comment period for the 
6 December 2012, Federal Register document "HACCP Plan Reassessment for Not-Ready-to-Eat Comminuted Poultry Products and Related Agency Verification Procedures"' until 20 April 2013. 
FSIS will also provide an additional 45 days fo r establishments that produce not-ready-to-eat 
(NRTE) comminuted chicken or turkey products to reassess their Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans for those products. FSIS will postpone by 45 days the date inspection 
personnel will begin verifying that those establishments have reassessed their HACCP plans. In 
addition, starting approximately on 20 April 2013, the Agency intends to begin obtaining samples to determine the prevalence of Salmonella in NRTE comminuted poultry product announced in the document. The Agency is taking these actions in response to a request made by a coalition of 
trade associations. 
 Text is available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR- 2013-03-07/html/2013-05342.htm . 
This addendum concerns a: 
[X] Modification of final date for comments 
[ ] 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 potent ially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, norm ally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under 
other circumstances, such as extension of or iginally 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) :  20 April 2013 G/SPS/N/USA/2488/Add.1 
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comme nts:  [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
For further information contact: For technical information: contact Rachel Edelstein, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Policy and Program Development, at +(1 202) 205 0495, or by fax at 
+(1 202) 720 2025.  
Text available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (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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