Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 54 / Monday, March 21, 2011 / Notices 15281 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request—Evaluation of the 

Quantity and Quality of Nutritional 

Information Available to School Food 

Authorities About Food Service 

Products and Commodities 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service 

(FNS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the general public and 

other public agencies to comment on 

this proposed information collection. 

This collection is a new collection for 

evaluation of the quantity and quality of 

nutritional information available to 

school food authorities about food 

service products and commodities. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before May 20, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions that 

were used; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments may be sent to: Alexandra 

Lewin, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park 

Center Drive, Room 500, Alexandria, VA 

22302. Comments may also be 

submitted via fax to the attention of 

Alexandra Lewin at 703–305–1410 or 

via e-mail to 

Alexandra.lewin@fns.usda.gov. 

Comments will also be accepted through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. 

All written comments will be open for 

public inspection at the office of the 

Food and Nutrition Service during 

regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101 

Park Center Drive, Room 500, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22302. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for Office of Management and Budget 

approval. All comments will be a matter 

of public record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of this information collection 

should be directed to Alexandra Lewin 

at 703–305–2705. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Evaluation of the Quantity and 

Quality of Nutritional Information 

Available to School Food Authorities 

about Food Service Products and 

Commodities. 

OMB Number: [0584–NEW]. 

Expiration Date: [Not Yet 

Determined.] 

Type of Request: [New Collection]. 

Abstract: The purpose of this 

evaluation is to fulfill the requirements 

of Section 242 of the Health, HungerFree Kids Act of 2010 (the Act). The Act 

amended Section 9(a)(4) of the Richard 

B. Russell National School Lunch Act, 

42 U.S.C. 1758(a)(4), and requires the 

Secretary to, not later than 1 year after 

the date of enactment of the Act, carry 

out a study to analyze the quantity and 

quality of nutritional information 

available to school food authorities 

about food service products and 

commodities. In addition, the Secretary 

must also submit to Congress a report on 

the results of the study that contains 

such legislative recommendations as the 

Secretary considers necessary to ensure 

that school food authorities have access 

to the nutritional information needed 

for menu planning and compliance 

assessments within 1 year after 

enactment of the Act. 

To conduct this study, FNS will work 

with our external partners, such as State 

agencies and the School Nutrition 

Association, to disseminate the survey 

to school foodservice professionals. The 

study will assess the quality and 

quantity of nutrition information 

available to school food authorities 

(SFAs) during both the ordering and 

delivery periods. The questions posed 

in the study will help FNS better 

understand purchasing decisions and 

will ultimately allow FNS to make 

recommendations to ensure SFAs can 

effectively and efficiently obtain 

accurate nutrition information needed 

for purchasing the widest variety of 

healthful foods, menu planning and 

undertaking compliance assessments. 

Affected Public: State, Local and 

Tribal Government. Respondent groups 

identified include current school 

foodservice professionals sampled from 

across the United States. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

Approximately 500 school foodservice 

professionals will participate in the 

benchmark survey as part of the study. 

This is based on an estimated 

completion rate with a previous FNS 

survey conducted through the School 

Nutrition Association’s membership list. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: The school foodservice 

professionals will be asked to respond 

to a survey once. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

500 (500 respondents × 1 response). 

Estimated Time per Response: .25 (the 

estimated time is approximately 15 

minutes). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 5,000 minutes (125 

hours). See the table below for estimated 

total annual burden for each type of 

respondent. 

Respondent 

Estimated 

number 

respondent 

Responses 

annually per 

respondent 

Total annual 

responses 

(col. b × c) 

Estimated avg. 

number of 

hours per 

response 

Estimated total 

hours 

(col. d × e) 

Reporting Burden 

School foodservice professionals ........................................ 500 1.00 500.00 0.25 125 

Total Reporting Burden ................................................ 500 ........................ 500.00 ........................ 125 

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15282 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 54 / Monday, March 21, 2011 / Notices 

Dated: March 14, 2011. 

Julia Paradis, 

Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–6494 Filed 3–18–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2010–0029] 

New Performance Standards for 

Salmonella and Campylobacter in 

Young Chicken and Turkey Slaughter 

Establishments: Response to 

Comments and Announcement of 

Implementation Schedule 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS) published a 

Federal Register Notice on May 14, 

2010 (75 FR 27288) in which it 

announced the forthcoming 

implementation of new performance 

standards for the pathogenic microorganisms Salmonella and 

Campylobacter for chilled carcasses in 

young chicken (broiler) and turkey 

slaughter establishments. The new 

performance standards were developed 

in response to a charge from the 

President’s Food Safety Working Group 

and based on recent FSIS Nationwide 

Microbiological Baseline Data 

Collection Programs. The standards will 

be applied to sample sets collected and 

analyzed by the Agency to evaluate 

establishment performance with respect 

to requirements of the Hazard Analysis 

and Critical Control Points (HACCP) 

Rule. The Agency received detailed 

comments submitted in response to the 

notice. This notice responds to those 

comments submitted and explains the 

changes adopted by the Agency after 

carefully evaluating comments. These 

changes include: 

1. Updated Salmonella and new 

Campylobacter performance standards for 

young chickens and turkeys will take effect 

with Agency verification sample sets 

scheduled for July 2011 

2. All young chicken and turkey 

establishments will move to the highest 

scheduling priority due to the initiation of 

Campylobacter testing for these product 

classes 

3. All sample sets scheduled for young 

chicken and turkey establishments will be 

analyzed for both Campylobacter and 

Salmonella, and follow-up sample sets 

responding to sample set failure for either 

organism will be analyzed for both organisms 

4. Effective with sample sets begun in July 

2011, the new Salmonella standards will 

accept five positive samples in a 51-sample 

set for young chickens and four positive 

samples in a 56-sample set for turkeys 

5. Effective July 2011 Salmonella 

performance Categories 1 and 2 for young 

chicken and turkey establishments, based on 

the new performance standards, will be 

applied exclusively for Agency internal 

analysis and quarterly aggregate reporting 

6. Web-posting of young chicken and 

turkey establishments that fail the new 

Salmonella standards (‘‘Category 3’’) for their 

last set will begin as sample sets scheduled 

for July 2011 are completed 

7. Campylobacter performance standards 

and sample set criteria for tracking and 

reporting to establishments will be applied to 

results from the smaller of the two laboratory 

Campylobacter sample portions (1 mL), 

which detects higher levels of contamination, 

making the performance standards 10.4 

percent for young chickens and 0.79 percent 

for turkeys 

8. Campylobacter sample set criteria for 

tracking and reporting 1 mL results are eight 

positive samples acceptable per 51-sample 

set for young chickens and three positive 

samples acceptable per 56-sample set for 

turkeys 

9. Campylobacter results from the larger of 

the two laboratory Campylobacter sample 

portions (30 mL for chickens, 24 mL for 

turkeys), which detects lower levels of 

contamination, will be used for Agency 

internal analysis 

10. Agency responses to Campylobacter 

sample set results will follow current 

Salmonella procedures for immediate followup testing for both organisms and for Food 

Safety Assessments when necessary 

11. Category 1/2/3 results will be posted in 

quarterly aggregate reports for all 

establishments producing raw products 

subject to FSIS Salmonella testing, including 

young chickens and turkeys under the new 

standards 

Docket: For access to background 

documents, go to the FSIS Docket Room 

at Room 2–2127, George Washington 

Carver Center, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, 

Mailstop 5474, Beltsville, MD 20705– 

5474 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel Engeljohn, PhD, Assistant 

Administrator for Office of Policy and 

Program Development, FSIS, USDA, 

Room 349–E, Jamie Whitten Building, 

14th and Independence, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–3700; telephone 

(202) 205–0495, fax (202) 720–2025; 

daniel.engeljohn@fsis.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

FSIS is the public health regulatory 

agency in USDA that is responsible for 

ensuring that the nation’s commercial 

supply of meat, poultry, and processed 

egg products is safe, wholesome, and 

appropriately labeled and packaged. 

FSIS is a participant in the President’s 

Food Safety Working Group (FSWG), 

which was created by President Obama 

in March 2009 to recommend 

improvements to the U.S. food safety 

system. The FSWG is chaired by 

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack 

and Health and Human Services 

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. In July 

2009, the FSWG published Key 

Findings recommending a new, public 

health-focused approach to food safety 

based on three core principles: 

Prioritizing prevention, strengthening 

surveillance and enforcement, and 

improving response and recovery. 

The FSWG specifically charged FSIS 

with ‘‘cutting Salmonella risk in Poultry 

Products’’ by ‘‘develop[ing] new 

standards to reduce the prevalence of 

Salmonella in turkey and poultry’’ and 

by ‘‘establish[ing] a Salmonella 

verification program with the goal of 

having 90 percent of poultry 

establishments meeting the new 

standards by the end of [calendar year] 

2010.’’ (FSWG) These new Salmonella 

standards are to be applied to sample 

sets from establishments included in the 

Agency’s Salmonella Verification 

Program in the place of the performance 

standards for young chickens (as 

broilers) codified at 9 CFR 381.94 and 

the standards for turkeys announced in 

a Federal Register Notice of February 

17, 2005. The Agency intends to issue 

a proposed rule that would formally 

rescind the codified standards that are 

no longer in effect. In consultations with 

the FSWG, the Agency committed to a 

number of other food safety initiatives 

to prevent illness, among them 

developing a new performance standard 

for Campylobacter for young chickens 

and turkeys. 

The Agency accordingly published a 

Federal Register Notice on May 14, 

2010 (75 FR 27288) in which it 

announced the July 2010 

implementation of new performance 

standards for the pathogenic microorganisms Salmonella and 

Campylobacter for chilled carcasses in 

young chicken and turkey slaughter 

establishments. The May 14, 2010 

notice announced that FSIS had 

developed such performance standards 

and predicted the public health impact 

that might result if, after two years of 

implementation, these standards are met 

by half of the establishments that would 

not meet them at first. The new 

performance standards for young 

chickens and turkeys were informed by, 

among other data sources, data collected 

during the Agency’s recent Nationwide 

Microbiological Baseline Data 

Collection Programs: The Young 

Chicken Baseline Survey (YCBS), and 

the Young Turkey Baseline Survey 

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