[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 77 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 19888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10602]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Docket No. 98-021N]


National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Meat and Poultry Subcommittee of the National Advisory 
Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Food (NACMCF) will meet on 
May 6 and 7, 1998, to discuss a number of issues that have been raised 
with regard to the Committee's Hazard Analysis and Critical Control 
Point (HACCP) Principles and Application Guidelines, a document that 
was adopted August 1997 at the NACMCF meeting in Seattle, Washington. 
On May 6, the Subcommittee will have further discussion of such issues 
as Good Manufacturing Practices, Hazard Identification, Critical 
Control Points, Corrective Actions, Verification, and Monitoring. On 
May 7, the Subcommittee plans to work on further development of HACCP 
guidelines for very small establishments.

DATES: The meeting will be held on May 6 and 7, 1998, from 9:00 a.m. to 
4:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Department of Agriculture/
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Conference Center, 4700 
River Road, in Conference Rooms A and B, Riverdale, Maryland 20737.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Subcommittee is encouraging 
persons with information on the discussion items in the SUMMARY to 
present their comments and recommendations to the group. Persons 
interested in making presentations, submitting technical papers, or 
providing comments should submit them by April 27, 1998, to Dr. Richard 
L. Ellis, Suite 6913 Franklin Court, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, 
Washington DC 20250-3700. The materials should be in a format suitable 
for preparing hard copy for review by Subcommittee members. Persons 
requiring a sign language interpreter or other special accommodation 
should contact Ms. Amelia Wright at the above address or by telephone 
(202) 501-7343 by April 27, 1998. All technical papers, comments, and 
data about the meeting will be available for public viewing beginning 
May 21, 1998, in the FSIS Docket Room, Room 102, Cotton Annex Building, 
300 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20250-3700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    The meeting is open to the public on a space-available basis. 
Comments may be made before or after the meeting is held. All comments 
will become part of the public record on this meeting.
    The Committee was established in April 1988. It provides advice and 
recommendations to the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human 
Services concerning microbiological and epidemiological aspects of food 
safety and foodborne diseases and also provides specific information to 
the Departments of Defense and Commerce.

    Done at Washington, DC, on April 15, 1998.
Thomas J. Billy,
Administrator.
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