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Notices Federal Register

1196 

Vol. 78, No. 5 

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2012–0052] 

Codex Alimentarius Commission: 

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Codex 

Intergovernmental Task Force on 

Animal Feeding 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary 

for Food Safety, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the Under 

Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), and 

the Center for Veterinary Medicine 

(CVM), Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA), are sponsoring a public meeting 

on January 17, 2013. The objective of 

the public meeting is to provide 

information and receive public 

comments on agenda items and draft 

United States (U.S.) positions that will 

be discussed at the 7th Session of the 

Ad Hoc Codex Intergovernmental Task 

Force on Animal Feeding (AFTF) of the 

Codex Alimentarius Commission 

(Codex), which will be held in Berne, 

Switzerland, February 4–8, 2013. The 

Under Secretary for Food Safety and the 

Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food 

and Drug Administration, recognize the 

importance of providing interested 

parties the opportunity to obtain 

background information on the 7th 

Session of the AFTF and to address 

items on the agenda. 

DATES: The public meeting is scheduled 

for Thursday January 17, 2013, from 

1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held in the Jamie L. Whitten Building, 

United States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA), 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW., Room 107–A, Washington, DC 

20250. Documents related to the 7th 

Session of the AFTF will be accessible 

via the World Wide Web at the 

following address: http:// 

www.codexalimentarius.org/meetingsreports/en/ 

Dr. Daniel McChesney, U.S. Delegate 

to the 7th Session of the AFTF, invites 

U.S. interested parties to submit their 

comments electronically to the 

following email address 

Daniel.McChesney@fda.hhs.gov and 

uscodex@fsis.usda.gov. 

Call-In Number 

If you wish to participate in the 

public meeting for the 7th session of the 

AFTF by conference call, please use the 

call-in number and participant code 

listed below. 

Call-in Number: 1 (888) 858–2144. 

Participant Code: 6208658. 

For Further Information About the 7th 

Session of the AFTF Contact: Dr. Daniel 

G. McChesney, Director, Office of 

Surveillance and Compliance, Center for 

Veterinary Medicine, FDA, 7529 

Standish Place, Rockville, MD 20855 

Phone: (240) 453–6830, Fax: (240) 453– 

6880, Email: 

Daniel.McChesney@fda.hhs.gov. 

For Further Information About the 

Public Meeting Contact: Doreen ChenMoulec, U.S. Codex Office, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., Room 4861, 

Washington, DC 20250, Phone: (202) 

205–7760, Fax: (202) 720–3157, E-mail: 

uscodex@fsis.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Codex was established in 1963 by two 

United Nations organizations, the Food 

and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and 

the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Through adoption of food standards, 

codes of practice, and other guidelines 

developed by its committees, and by 

promoting their adoption and 

implementation by governments, Codex 

seeks to protect the health of consumers 

and ensure that fair practices are used 

in trade. 

The AFTF is responsible for: 

(a) The development of guidelines, 

intended for governments on how to 

apply the existing Codex risk 

assessment methodologies to the various 

types of hazards related to 

contaminants/residues in feed 

ingredients, including feed additives 

used in feeding stuffs for food 

producing animals. The guidelines 

should include specific science-based 

risk assessment criteria to apply to feed 

contaminants/residues. These criteria 

should be consistent with existing 

Codex methodologies. 

The guidelines should also consider 

the need to address the establishment of 

rates of transfer and accumulation from 

feed to edible tissues in animal-derived 

products according to the characteristics 

of the hazard. 

The guidelines should be drawn up in 

such a way as to enable countries to 

prioritize and assess risks based upon 

local conditions, use, exposure of 

animals and the impact, if any, on 

human health. 

(b) Develop a prioritized list of 

hazards in feed ingredients and feed 

additives for governmental use. The list 

should contain hazards of international 

relevance that are reasonably likely to 

occur, and are thus likely to warrant 

future attention. 

In doing so, due consideration should 

be given to the prioritized list of hazards 

as recommended by the FAO/WHO 

Expert Meeting on Animal Feed Impact 

on Food Safety. Clear criteria should be 

used to prioritize the list of hazards and 

take account of the potential transfer of 

contaminants/residues in feed to edible 

animal products (e.g. meat, fish meat, 

milk and eggs). 

The Committee is hosted by 

Switzerland. 

Issues to be Discussed at the Public 

Meeting 

The following items on the agenda for 

the 7th Session of the AFTF will be 

discussed during the public meeting: 

• Matters referred to the AFTF by 

Codex and other Codex committees and 

task forces 

• Report on activities of FAO, WHO 

and other international 

intergovernmental organizations 

• Draft guidelines on application of 

risk assessment for feed 

• Proposed draft guidance for use by 

governments in prioritizing the national 

feed hazards 

Each issue listed will be fully 

described in documents distributed, or 

to be distributed, by the Secretariat prior 

to the meeting. Members of the public 

may access copies of these documents 

(see ADDRESSES). 

Public Meeting 

At the January 17, 2013, public 

meeting, draft U.S. positions on the 

agenda items will be described and 

discussed, and attendees will have the 


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opportunity to pose questions and offer 

comments. Written comments may be 

offered at the meeting or sent to Daniel 

McChesney, U.S. Delegate for the 7th 

Session of the AFTF (see ADDRESSES). 

Written comments should state that they 

relate to activities of the 7th Session of 

the AFTF. 

Additional Public Notification 

FSIS will announce this notice online 

through the FSIS Web page located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations_&_

policies/Federal_Register_Notices/

index.asp. 

FSIS will also make copies of this 

Federal Register publication available 

through the FSIS Constituent Update, 

which is used to provide information 

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and other individuals who have asked 

to be included. The Update is also 

available on the FSIS Web page. In 

addition, FSIS offers an electronic mail 

subscription service which provides 

automatic and customized access to 

selected food safety news and 

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http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_

Events/Email_Subscription/. Options 

range from recalls to export information 

to regulations, directives, and notices. 

Customers can add or delete 

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option to password protect their 

accounts. 

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement 

USDA prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, gender, 

religion, age, disability, political beliefs, 

sexual orientation, and marital or family 

status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to 

all programs.) Persons with disabilities 

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should contact USDA’s Target Center at 

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To file a written complaint of 

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the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 

1400 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–9410 or call 

202–720–5964 (voice and TTY). USDA 

is an equal opportunity provider and 

employer. 

Done at Washington, DC on: December 21, 

2012. 

MaryFrances Lowe, 

U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00169 Filed 1–7–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Order No. 1875] 

Reorganization/Expansion of ForeignTrade Zone 8 Under Alternative Site 

Framework; Toledo, OH 

Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the 

following Order: 

Whereas, the Board adopted the 

alternative site framework (ASF) (15 

CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the 

establishment or reorganization of 

zones; 

Whereas, the Toledo-Lucas County 

Port Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade 

Zone 8, submitted an application to the 

Board (FTZ Docket B–49–2012, 

docketed 7/12/2012) for authority to 

reorganize and expand the zone under 

the ASF with a service area of 

Sandusky, Henry, Wood, Lucas and 

Defiance Counties, Ohio, in and 

adjacent to the Toledo-Sandusky 

Customs and Border Protection port of 

entry, FTZ 8’s existing Sites 1, 2, 4 and 

5 would be categorized as magnet sites 

and Sites 7 and 8 as usage-driven sites, 

Site 3 would be removed from the zone 

and the grantee proposes an additional 

subzone (Subzone 8I) under the ASF; 

Whereas, notice inviting public 

comment was given in the Federal 

Register (77 FR 43048, 7/23/2012) and 

the application has been processed 

pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s 

regulations; and, 

Whereas, the Board adopts the 

findings and recommendations of the 

examiner’s report, and finds that the 

requirements of the FTZ Act and the 

Board’s regulations are satisfied, and 

that the proposal is in the public 

interest; 

Now, therefore, the Board hereby 

orders: 

The application to reorganize and 

expand FTZ 8 under the alternative site 

framework is approved, subject to the 

FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations, 

including Section 400.13, to the Board’s 

standard 2,000-acre activation limit for 

the zone, to a five-year ASF sunset 

provision for magnet sites that would 

terminate authority for Sites 2, 4 and 5 

if not activated by December 31, 2017, 

and to three-year ASF sunset provisions 

for subzone/usage-driven sites that 

would terminate authority for Sites 7 

and 8 as well as each site of Subzone 8I 

if no foreign-status merchandise is 

admitted for a bona fide customs 

purpose by December 31, 2015. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of 

December 2012. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import 

Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board. 

ATTEST: llllllllllllll

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00156 Filed 1–7–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Order No. 1876] 

Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 

32 Under Alternative Site Framework; 

Miami, FL 

Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the 

following Order: 

Whereas, the Board adopted the 

alternative site framework (ASF) (15 

CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the 

establishment or reorganization of 

zones; 

Whereas, the Greater Miami ForeignTrade Zone, Inc., grantee of ForeignTrade Zone 32, submitted an 

application to the Board (FTZ Docket B– 

51–2012, docketed July 13, 2012; 

amended October 9, 2012) for authority 

to reorganize under the ASF with a 

service area that includes a portion of 

Miami-Dade County, Florida, within the 

Miami Customs and Border Protection 

port of entry, FTZ 32’s existing Site 1 

would be categorized as a magnet site, 

Site 2 would be removed from the zone, 

and Sites 3 and 4 would be categorized 

as usage-driven sites; 

Whereas, notice inviting public 

comment was given in the Federal 

Register (77 FR 43048–43049, 7/23/ 

2012) and the application, as amended, 

has been processed pursuant to the FTZ 

Act and the Board’s regulations; and, 

Whereas, the Board adopts the 

findings and recommendation of the 

examiner’s report, and finds that the 

requirements of the FTZ Act and the 

Board’s regulations are satisfied, and 

that the proposal, as amended, is in the 

public interest; 


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