[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 10 (Friday, January 14, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2284-2285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-928]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service

9 CFR Parts 381 and 424

[Docket No. 97-076C]


Irradiation of Meat Food Products; Technical Correction

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a 
technical correction to its final rule permitting the use of ionizing 
radiation for treating refrigerated or frozen, uncooked meat food and 
poultry products.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 22, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel L. Engeljohn, Ph.D., Director, 
Regulation Development and Analysis Division, Office of Policy, Program 
Development, and Evaluation, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture (202) 720-5627.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 23, 1999, FSIS published in the Federal Register a 
final rule permitting the use of ionizing radiation for treating 
refrigerated or frozen, uncooked meat, meat byproducts, and certain 
other meat food products to reduce levels of foodborne pathogens and to 
extend shelf-life (64 FR 72150). Also in that rule, FSIS revised the 
regulations governing the irradiation of poultry products so that they 
will be as consistent as possible with the regulations for the 
irradiation of meat food products. In this document, FSIS is making a 
correction to the amendatory instructions that appeared in the final 
rule.
    The final rule included amendatory instructions for consolidating 
the revised regulations governing the irradiation of poultry products 
and the new regulations governing the irradiation of meat food products 
into a new, single Sec. 424.22(c). FSIS also intended to issue 
amendatory instructions to remove all of the existing regulations 
governing the irradiation of poultry products, which are contained in 
Sec. 381.19, 381.135, and 381.149. FSIS inadvertently omitted the 
instruction to remove Sec. 381.149 from the regulations. FSIS is 
issuing that instruction in this technical correction document.

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List of Subjects

9 CFR Part 381

    Food labeling, Poultry and poultry products, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements, Signs and symbols.

9 CFR Part 424

    Food additives, Food packaging, Meat inspection, Poultry and 
poultry products.
    Accordingly, title 9, chapter III, of the Code of Federal 
Regulations is amended as follows:

PART 381--POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION REGULATIONS

    1. The authority citation for part 381 would continue to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 138f, 450; 21 U.S.C. 451-470; 7 CFR 2.18, 
2.53.


Sec. 381.149 [Removed]

    2. Section 381.149 is removed.

    Done in Washington, DC on: January 11, 2000.
Thomas J. Billy,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 00-928 Filed 1-13-00; 8:45 am]
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