[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 239 (Monday, December 14, 1998)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 68700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-33047]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service

9 CFR Parts 381 and 441

[Docket No. 97-054R]
RIN 0583-AC26


Retained Water in Raw Meat and Poultry Products: Poultry Chilling 
Performance Standards

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is reopening the 
comment period for the proposed rulemaking, ``Retained Water in Raw 
Meat and Poultry Products: Poultry Chilling Performance Standards'' (63 
FR 48961, 9/11/98), in response to a request for additional time to 
submit comments. The comment period will reopen for 30 days.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 13, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Send one original and two copies of written comments to: 
FSIS Docket Clerk, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and 
Inspection Service, Room 102, 300 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20250-3700. Please refer to docket number 97-054P.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia F. Stolfa, Assistant Deputy 
Administrator, Office of Policy, Program Development, and Evaluation, 
Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, DC 20250-3700; (202) 205-0699.

    Done at Washington, DC, on December 8, 1998.
Thomas J. Billy,
Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 98-33047 Filed 12-11-98; 8:45 am]
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