9232 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 39 / Monday, March 1, 2010 / Notices 

March 10, 2010, 8 a.m. to March 11, 

2010, 6 p.m., Bethesda Marriott, 5151 

Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD 20814 

which was published in the Federal 

Register on February 1, 2010, 75 FR 

5093. 

This FRN amends the dates of the 

meeting to May 10–11, 2010. The 

meeting is closed to the public. 

Dated: February 24, 2010. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4184 Filed 2–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) 

2010–2014 Strategic Plan 

ACTION: Notice of availability of the ODS 

Strategic Plan for 2010–2014. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Dietary 

Supplements (ODS) at the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH) has completed 

a strategic planning process resulting in 

the development of the ODS Strategic 

Plan for 2010–2014, entitled 

Strengthening Knowledge and 

Understanding of Dietary Supplements. 

The strategic plan is available in pdf 

format on the ODS Web site: http:// 

ods.od.nih.gov/pubs/strategicplan/ 

StrategicPlan2010-2014.pdf. 

The ODS strategic plan was 

developed after more than a year’s 

worth of reflection on its programs, 

activities, and accomplishments, as well 

as anticipated challenges for the future. 

It was also shaped by the thoughtful 

input, comments, and advice received 

from ODS stakeholder communities 

throughout the federal government, 

academia, the dietary supplement 

industry, consumer advocacy and 

education groups, and interested 

consumers. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of Dietary Supplements, National 

Institutes of Health, 6100 Executive 

Boulevard, Room 3B01, Bethesda, MD 

20892–7517, E-mail: ODS@nih.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The mission of the Office of Dietary 

Supplements (ODS) is to strengthen 

knowledge and understanding of dietary 

supplements by evaluating scientific 

information, stimulating and supporting 

research, disseminating research results, 

and educating the public to foster an 

enhanced quality of life and health for 

the U.S. population. ODS was 

established in the Office of the Director, 

NIH, in 1995 as a major provision of the 

Dietary Supplement Health and 

Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). 

Dated: February 22, 2010. 

Paul M. Coates, 

Director, Office of Dietary Supplements, 

Office of the Director, National Institutes of 

Health. 

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BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2010–N–0104] 

Measuring Progress on Food Safety: 

Current Status and Future Directions; 

Public Workshop 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of public workshop. 

The Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA) is announcing a public workshop 

entitled Measuring Progress on Food 

Safety: Current Status and Future 

Directions. The purpose of the public 

workshop is to inform the public about 

current and potential measurements for 

assessing progress in food safety and 

associated methodological issues and to 

discuss potential improvements. 

Date and Time: The public workshop 

will be held on March 30, 2010, from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: The public workshop will 

be held in the Regency A Ballroom of 

the Hyatt Regency Washington, 400 

New Jersey Ave., NW., Washington, DC 

20001, 202–737–1234, FAX: 202–737– 

5773. 

Contact Person: For registration 

information and general questions 

regarding the workshop, contact Juanita 

Yates, Center for Food Safety and 

Applied Nutrition (HFS–009), Food and 

Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch 

Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740, 301– 

436–1731, e-mail: 

juanita.yates@fda.hhs.gov. 

Registration: There is no registration 

fee. However, due to limited seating, we 

encourage all persons who wish to 

attend the workshop to register in 

advance. Attendees may register in 

advance by March 24, 2010. There will 

be no onsite registration. We encourage 

attendees to register for the workshop 

electronically at: http://www.fda.gov/ 

Food/NewsEvents/Workshops

MeetingsConferences/ucm201102.htm. 

If you need special accommodations 

due to disability, please contact Juanita 

Yates (see Contact Person) by March 24, 

2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Federal Government and the food 

industry are pursuing major new efforts 

to reduce foodborne illness that include 

science-based preventive controls in 

food production and processing. As 

recommended by the President’s Food 

Safety Working Group (Ref. 1), one 

element of the Federal Government’s 

food safety initiatives includes regularly 

assessing performance metrics for 

measuring progress in reducing 

foodborne illness. FDA, the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 

and the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS) are 

collaborating to address the 

methodologic and data challenges 

involved in the development of feasible 

and effective food safety metrics. The 

agencies will engage the food safety 

expert and stakeholder communities to 

discuss this subject through a series of 

public workshops. 

I. Background 

FDA and FSIS base decisions about 

policies and other interventions related 

to food safety, in part, on CDC’s 

analyses of data on foodborne illness. 

These analyses are powerful tools for 

assessing the safety of food, which, in 

turn, reflects the effectiveness of 

Government and industry policies and 

interventions. The President’s Food 

Safety Working Group has noted the 

importance of assessing metrics (Ref. 1). 

Through its epidemiologic and 

laboratory data collection and analysis, 

CDC generates various types of 

measures and estimates of foodborne 

illness, via a number of mechanisms, 

which serve different purposes. For 

example, the Foodborne Diseases Active 

Surveillance Network (FoodNet) collects 

data on laboratory-confirmed cases of 

nine foodborne illnesses caused by 

bacteria and parasites commonly 

associated with foodborne human 

illness (e.g., Salmonella and Escherichia 

coli O157:H7). The cases are reported to 

CDC by State health authorities in 10 

States representing 15 percent of the 

U.S. population (i.e., all of Connecticut, 

Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New 

Mexico, Oregon, and Tennessee and 

selected counties in California, 

Colorado, and New York). Based on the 

FoodNet data, CDC writes an annual 

report on the incidence and trends of 

laboratory-confirmed cases of these nine 

illnesses. The FoodNet also conducts 

special studies to determine risk factors 

for acquiring those illnesses. 

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Periodically, CDC estimates the 

overall burden of foodborne illness. 

CDC’s estimate of the overall burden of 

foodborne illness has a much larger 

scope than CDC’s annual reports and 

draws heavily from FoodNet data as 

well as from a much wider variety of 

data sources, both inside and outside of 

CDC. This estimate also includes 

norovirus, a major contributor to the 

overall burden of foodborne disease, 

which can be transmitted not only by 

foods, but also by environmental 

sources, and is not monitored by 

FoodNet. CDC’s last estimate of the 

overall burden of foodborne illness was 

issued in 1999 and included unknown 

causes of foodborne illness (Ref. 2). 

Since then, advances in methodology 

and data sources have improved 

capabilities in developing disease 

burden estimates; these will be reflected 

in CDC’s next estimate. 

In addition to CDC estimates, FDA 

and USDA use other measures to gauge 

the success, or implied success (i.e., via 

proxy measures), of policies and 

interventions for reducing foodborne 

illness. For example, although 

measurements of the food industry’s 

compliance with a given food safety 

regulation cannot be used to directly 

measure the regulation’s impact on the 

rate of foodborne illness, improved 

compliance can be reasonably expected 

to improve the likelihood that the foods 

involved will be safer and, thus, the 

likelihood that fewer illnesses will 

result. Examples include the tracking of 

E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef and of 

Salmonella in meat, and surveys of both 

domestic and imported produce, such as 

surveys conducted by FDA and USDA’s 

Microbiological Data Program, which 

have targeted Salmonella and E. coli 

O157:H7. 

II. Purpose of the Workshop and Topics 

for Discussion 

The purpose of this initial 1-day 

public workshop is to discuss current 

and potential measurements for 

assessing progress in food safety and to 

provide workshop participants an 

opportunity to learn about metrics and 

to consider and suggest metrics for 

assessing the effects that policies and 

interventions have on foodborne illness. 

The workshop will focus on the current 

status and challenges involved in 

measuring foodborne illness and trends 

over time, including incidence and 

trends in the overall burden of 

foodborne illness and illnesses 

associated with specific foodborne 

pathogens and specific pathogens that 

affect specific foods. The workshop will 

include a discussion of other measures 

that are, or could be, used to measure 

food safety progress that cannot be 

directly linked to health outcomes. 

These include measures of process 

control in food production, studies on 

the prevalence of specific pathogens in 

specific classes of food, and studies of 

compliance with recommended or 

required food safety practices in retail 

and food-service operations. 

Specifically, topics to be discussed 

include CDC’s data sources and 

methods, including methods for 

estimating the burden of foodborne 

illness, and their various limitations and 

utilities; and FDA’s and USDA’s 

ongoing measures to gauge the success, 

or implied success (i.e., via the kinds of 

proxy measures described in previously 

mentioned examples; e.g., surveys for E. 

coli O157:H7 and Salmonella in 

produce and tracking of specific 

pathogens in meat), of policies and 

interventions, including the level of 

compliance with food safety regulations. 

III. Transcripts 

Please be advised that as soon as a 

transcript is available, it will be 

accessible at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. It may be viewed 

at the Division of Dockets Management 

(HFA–305), Food and Drug 

Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 

1061, Rockville, MD 20852. A transcript 

will also be available in either hardcopy 

or on CD–ROM, after submission of a 

Freedom of Information request. Written 

requests are to be sent to Division of 

Freedom of Information (HFI–35), Office 

of Management Programs, Food and 

Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, rm. 6–30, Rockville, MD 20857. 

IV. References 

The following references are on 

display at the Division of Dockets 

Management (see Transcripts), between 

9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday. (FDA has verified the following 

Web site address, but FDA is not 

responsible for any subsequent changes 

to the Web site after this document 

publishes in the Federal Register.) 

1. President’s Food Safety Working Group 

findings, http://www.foodsafetyworking

group.gov/ContentKeyFindings/HomeKey

Findings.htm. 

2. Mead P.S., L. Slutsker, V. Dietz, et al., 

Food-Related Illness and Death in the United 

States, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 5(5), 

607–625, 1999. 

Dated: February 23, 2010. 

Leslie Kux, 

Acting Assistant Commissioner for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4110 Filed 2–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–01–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DHS–2009–0071] 

Privacy Act of 1974; U.S. Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement–006 

Intelligence Records System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Privacy Office, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Privacy Act system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, U.S. Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement is modifying 

an existing system of records titled the 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement– 

006 Intelligence Records System (Dec. 9, 

2008), to clarify the nature of the 

personally identifiable information that 

will be collected and maintained on 

individuals. In conjunction with its 

publication of the Privacy Impact 

Assessment for the ICEGangs system, 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

is modifying the DHS/ICE–006 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

Intelligence Records system of records 

notice to more clearly explain the type 

of information it gathers on suspected 

and confirmed gang members and 

associates. This DHS/Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement–006 Intelligence 

Records system of records notice 

updates categories of individuals; 

categories of records; purpose of the 

system; adding a routine use; and 

policies and practices for retaining and 

disposing of records in the system. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

is soliciting comments on this SORN 

due to the clarifying changes that were 

made since the original publication. A 

Privacy Impact Assessment on ICEGangs 

that describes the system in detail is 

being published concurrently with this 

notice. In addition, this notice addresses 

one comment that was received in 

response to the original publication of 

the Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement Intelligence Records SORN 

on December 9, 2008. A final rule is 

being published concurrently with this 

notice in which the Department 

exempts portions of this system of 

records from one or more provisions of 

the Privacy Act because of criminal, 

civil, and administrative enforcement 

requirements. 

DATES: This amended system of records 

will be effective March 31, 2010. 

Written comments must be submitted 

on or before March 31, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number DHS– 

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