G/SPS/N/USA/2508/Add.2  
 
30 April 2013  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 28 Ap ril 2013, is being circulated at the request 
of the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Draft Qualitative Risk Assessment of Risk of Activity/Food Combinations for Activities (Outside the 
Farm Definition) Conducted in a Facility Co-Located on a Farm; Availability; Extension of the 
Comment Period 
 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is extending the comment period for a document that we made available for public comment by  notification in the Federal Register of 
16 January 2013. This action is being taken to make the comment period for the draft risk 
assessment conform to the comment period for proposed rules entitled Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food 
(the proposed preventive controls rule) and Stan dards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and 
Holding of Produce for Human Consumption (the prop osed produce safety rule). Elsewhere, FDA is 
announcing a 120-day extension of the comment period for the proposed preventive controls rule and the proposed produce safety rule. 
 http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/sps/USA/13_1732_00_e.pdf  
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) :  16 September 2013 G/SPS/N/USA/2508/Add.2 
 
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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: 
Submit electronic comments to http://www.regulations.gov . Submit written comments to Division 
of Dockets Management (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, 
Rockville, MD 20852, USA. Identify comments with the docket number FDA-2012-N-1258 when 
submitting comments.  
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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