[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61070-61071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24485]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Pet Care Products Task Force

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 18, 2019, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Pet Care Products Task 
Force (``PCPTF'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with 
the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) 
the identities of the parties to the venture and (2) the nature and 
objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose 
of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust

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plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 
to the venture are: Bayer Health Care, LLC, Animal Health Division, 
Shawnee, KS; Central Garden & Pet Company, Schaumburg, IL; Elanco U.S. 
Inc., Greenfield, IN; The Hartz Mountain Corporation, Secaucus, NJ; and 
Pet IQ, Omaha, NE. The general area of PCPTF's planned activity is to 
develop proposed Standard Operating Procedures (``SOPs'') to amend or 
replace the current United States Environmental Protection Agency 
(``EPA'') SOP developed for pet care products in 2012 by (i) reviewing 
and analyzing existing pet care product exposure assessment methods 
from EPA, Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency (``PMRA'') 
and European Medicines Agency (``EMA''); (ii) developing a scoping 
document that outlines options available for an exposure assessment 
method, including advantages and disadvantages for each option, and, 
where necessary, any related data refinement costs for each option; and 
(iii) meeting with the EPA Office of Pesticide Products to present 
options for the revised SOPS and to solicit feedback.

    Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-24485 Filed 11-8-19; 8:45 am]
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