[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 217 (Monday, November 9, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 71294-71295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-24806]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
21 CFR Part 112
[Docket No. FDA-2020-N-1119]
Request for Information and Comments on Consumption of Certain
Uncommon Produce Commodities in the United States; Extension of Comment
Period
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notification; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is extending the
comment period for the notification entitled ``Request for Information
and Comments on Consumption of Certain Uncommon Produce Commodities in
the United States'' that appeared in the Federal Register of August 10,
2020. We are taking this action in response to a request from
stakeholders to extend the comment period to allow additional time for
interested persons to develop and submit data, information, and/or
comments for this Request for Information.
DATES: FDA is extending the comment period on the Request for
Information published August 10, 2020 (85 FR 48124). Submit either
electronic or written comments by January 8, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments as follows. Please note that late,
untimely filed comments will not be considered. Electronic comments
must be submitted on or before January 8, 2021. The https://www.regulations.gov electronic filing system will accept comments until
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of January 8, 2021. Comments
received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions)
will be considered timely if they are postmarked or the delivery
service acceptance receipt is on or before that date.
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted
electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information,
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
If you want to submit a comment with confidential
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public,
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').
Written/Paper Submissions
Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier (for written/paper
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified,
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No.
FDA-2020-N-1119 for ``Request for Information and Comments on
Consumption of Certain Uncommon Produce Commodities in the United
States.'' Received comments, those filed in a timely manner (see
ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and, except for those
submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly viewable at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Dockets Management Staff between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 240-402-7500.
Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly
available, submit your
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comments only as a written/paper submission. You should submit two
copies total. One copy will include the information you claim to be
confidential with a heading or cover note that states ``THIS DOCUMENT
CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' The Agency will review this copy,
including the claimed confidential information, in its consideration of
comments. The second copy, which will have the claimed confidential
information redacted/blacked out, will be available for public viewing
and posted on https://www.regulations.gov. Submit both copies to the
Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish your name and contact
information to be made publicly available, you can provide this
information on the cover sheet and not in the body of your comments and
you must identify this information as ``confidential.'' Any information
marked as ``confidential'' will not be disclosed except in accordance
with 21 CFR 10.20 and other applicable disclosure law. For more
information about FDA's posting of comments to public dockets, see 80
FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access the information at: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number, found in brackets in
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, 240-402-7500.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samir Assar, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition (HFS-317), Food and Drug Administration, 5001
Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-1636.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In the Federal Register of August 10, 2020 (85 FR 48124), we
published a notification entitled ``Request for Information and
Comments on Consumption of Certain Uncommon Produce Commodities in the
United States.'' This action opened a docket with a 90-day comment
period to receive information and comments related to certain produce
commodities with no or low reported consumption in the database relied
on to create the list of rarely consumed raw commodities that are
exempt from the Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and
Holding of Produce for Human Consumption (21 CFR part 112) (produce
safety regulation).
FDA has received a request for a 60-day extension for this comment
period in order to allow additional time for interested persons to
develop and submit data, information, and/or comments for this Request
for Information. We have concluded that it is reasonable to extend for
60 days the comment period for this Request for Information. The Agency
believes that this extension allows adequate time for any interested
persons to submit data, information, and/or comments for this Request
for Information.
Dated: November 3, 2020.
Lauren K. Roth,
Acting Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2020-24806 Filed 11-6-20; 8:45 am]
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