[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 80 (Friday, April 24, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23047-23048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-08762]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-1987-P-0074]


Canned Pacific Salmon Deviating From Identity Standard; Amendment 
of Temporary Marketing Permit

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending Bumble Bee 
Seafoods Inc.'s temporary permit to market test canned skinless and 
boneless chunk salmon packed in water that contains sodium 
tripolyphosphate to inhibit protein curd formation during retorting. 
The temporary permit is amended to allow for the canned skinless and 
boneless chunk salmon packed in water with or without sodium 
tripolyphosphate and to update the manufacturing location. This 
amendment will allow the applicant to continue to test market the test 
product and collect data on consumer acceptance of the test product.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Loretta A. Carey, Center for Food 
Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-820), Food and Drug Administration, 
5001 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-2371.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of July 13, 1987 (52 
FR 26186), we issued a notice announcing that we had issued a temporary 
permit to Bumble Bee Seafoods, Inc., San Diego, CA 92123, to market 
test products identified as canned skinless and boneless chunk salmon 
packed in water and containing added sodium tripolyphosphate to inhibit 
protein curd formation during retorting. The permit allowed for the 
test product to be manufactured at a plant located in Petersburg, AK. 
We issued the permit to facilitate market testing of products that 
deviate from the requirements of the standard of identity for canned 
Pacific salmon in 21 CFR 161.170, which were issued under section 401 
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 341).
    In the Federal Register of April 8, 1988 (53 FR 11710), we issued a 
notice announcing that we had amended the temporary permit to permit 
the test product be manufactured at one additional plant, Chugach 
Alaska Fisheries, Inc., Ocean Dock Rd., Cordova, AK 99574. In the 
Federal Register of September 6, 1988 (53 FR 34354), we issued another 
notice announcing that we were extending the expiration date of the 
permit to either the effective date of a final rule for any proposal to 
amend the standard of identity for canned Pacific salmon that may 
result from the National Food Processors Association's petition, 
submitted on behalf of Bumble Bee Seafoods, Inc., and other salmon 
packers holding temporary permits, or 30 days after termination of such 
proposal.
    Under our regulations at 21 CFR 130.17(f), we are amending the 
temporary permit issued to Bumble Bee Seafoods, Inc., to allow for the 
canned skinless and boneless chunk salmon packed in water with or 
without sodium tripolyphosphate and to allow the test product to be 
manufactured only at one

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plant, Pataya Food Industries Ltd., located at 90/6 Moo 7, Settakit 
Road, Tambol Tarsai, Amphur Maung, Samutsakorn 74000 Thailand. All 
other conditions and terms of this permit remain the same.

    Dated: April 20, 2020.
Lowell J. Schiller,
Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2020-08762 Filed 4-23-20; 8:45 am]
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