[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 48169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24126]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Docket No. 98-049N]


National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection; 
Public Meeting

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing 
that the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection 
will be meeting to consider five new issues: (1) Revisions to Meat, 
Poultry, and Related Laws; (2) Equivalency of Foreign Inspection 
Programs; (3) Animal Production Food Safety; (4) Review of the FSIS 
Budget and User Fees; and (5) Consumer Education. All interested 
persons are welcome to attend the meeting and to submit written 
comments and suggestions on these issues and others the Committee might 
consider.

DATES: The meeting will be held on November 4 and 5, 1998. The full 
Committee will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on November 4 and 5. 
Subcommittees will meet from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on November 4 to 
continue work on issues discussed during the full Committee meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Quality Hotel & Suites, 
Courthouse Plaza, 1200 North Courthouse Road, Arlington, VA 22201; 
telephone (703) 524-4000. Submit written comments on the discussion 
topic to the FSIS Docket Clerk, Docket No. 98-049N, Room 102, Cotton 
Annex Building, 300 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20250-3700. The 
comments and official transcript of the meeting will be kept in the 
Docket Clerk's office when they become available.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Michael Micchelli at (202) 720-
6269, by FAX at (202) 690-1030 or E-mail to Michael.M[email protected]. 
A schedule for discussion of each of the topics is available on the 
FSIS Homepage at http://www.usda.gov/agency/fsis/homepage.htm. This 
schedule also is available by FAST FAX, FSIS'' automated FAX retrieval 
system, at (800) 238-8281 or (202) 690-3754. The reference number to 
access FAST FAX is 4000.

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 on Federal and State meat and poultry programs 
pursuant to sections 7(c), 24, 205, 301(c) of the Federal Meat 
Inspection Act and sections 5(a)(3), 5(c), 8(b), and 11(e) of the 
Poultry Products Inspection Act. The Committee has three standing 
subcommittees to deliberate on specific issues and make recommendations 
through the whole Committee to the Secretary of Agriculture. The FSIS 
Administrator is the Committee Chair. Committee membership 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 Committee 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
Michael J. Gregory, Tyson's Foods Inc.
Dr. Cheryl Hall, Zacky 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 Stolzfus, Stolzfus Meats
Dr. David M. Theno, Jr., Foodmaker Inc.

    The meeting is open to the public on a space-available, first-come 
basis. Registration is required and will take place at the meeting. 
Pre-registration is not required. Interested persons are encouraged to 
comment on the discussion issues and to file written comments.

    Done in Washington, DC, on: September 1, 1998.
Thomas J. Billy,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 98-24126 Filed 9-8-98; 8:45 am]
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