[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 239 (Friday, December 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65408-65409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32489]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. 97-071N]


National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection 
will meet on January 13 and 14, 1998, to continue its consideration of 
three policy issues that it began discussing at its September 9, 10, 
and 11, 1997, meeting: (1) Interstate shipment of State-inspected 
product; (2) Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) 
inspection models; and (3) inspection resource management in a HACCP 
environment. The Committee will consider two new issues at the January 
meeting: (1) Roles of Federal, State, and local governments in farm-to-
table food safety; and (2) policy on pathogen testing and product 
disposition. All interested persons are welcome to attend the meeting 
and to submit written comments and suggestions concerning issues the 
Committee plans to consider.

DATES: The meeting will be held on January 13 and 14, 1998, from 8:00 
a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

COMMENTS: Please send written comments on topics the Committee will 
consider at the January meeting to the FSIS Docket Clerk: Docket 97-
071N, Room 102 Cotton Annex Building, 300 12th Street, SW, Washington, 
DC 20250-3700. Comments may also be sent by facsimile to (202) 205-
0381. The comments and the official transcript of the meeting, when it 
becomes available,

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may be viewed in the Docket Clerk's office.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place in the Capitol Room of the Hyatt 
Regency On Capitol Hill Hotel, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, 
DC 20001 at (202) 737-1234.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Mr. Michael N. Micchelli at 
(202) 720-6269 or FAX to (202) 690-1030. Attendees will be required to 
register at the meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    On February 12, 1997, the Secretary of Agriculture renewed the 
charter for the Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection. The 
Committee provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of 
Agriculture regarding Federal and State meat and poultry inspection 
programs.
    Membership of the Committee is drawn from representatives of 
consumer groups, producers, processors, and marketers from the meat and 
poultry industry, and State government officials. The current members 
of the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection are:

Dr. Deloran M. Allen, Excel Corporation
Dr. William L. Brown, ABC Research Corporation
Terry Burkhardt, Wisconsin Bureau of Meat Safety and Inspection
Caroline Smith-DeWaal, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Nancy Donley, Safe Tables Our Priority
Carol Tucker Foreman, Safe Food Coalition
Michael J. Gregory, Hudson Foods Inc.
Dr. Cheryl Hall, Foster Farms, Inc.
Dr. Margaret Hardin, National Pork Producers
Alan Janzen, Circle Five Feedyards, Inc.
Dr. Daniel E. LaFontaine, South Carolina Meat-Poultry Inspection 
Department
Dr. Dale Morse, New York Office of Public Health
Rosemary Mucklow, National Meat Association
William Rosser, Texas Department of Public Health
J. Myron Stoltzfus, Stoltzfus Meats
Dr. David M. Theno, Jr., Foodmaker Inc.

    At the public meeting, the Committee will organize into 
subcommittees to study the issues. The Committee has three standing 
subcommittees to deliberate on specific issues and make recommendations 
to the whole Committee.
    The five principal topics that the Committee will consider at the 
meeting are: (1) Interstate shipment of State-inspected product; (2) 
HACCP inspection models; (3) inspection resource management in a HACCP 
environment; (4) roles of Federal, State, and local governments in 
farm-to-table food safety; and (5) policy on pathogen testing and 
product disposition.
    The meeting is open to the public on a space-available basis. 
Interested persons will have an opportunity to discuss issues relating 
to the activities of the Committee and may file comments with the 
Committee in the manner described above in COMMENTS.
    Done in Washington, DC, on: December 4, 1997.
Thomas J. Billy,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 97-32489 Filed 12-11-97; 8:45 am]
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