United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States National Archives and Records Administration Office of the Federal Register author aut Government Organization text government publication eng FR Regulatory Information 2008_register executive 2010-09-23 article Rules and Regulations D09002ee1c8084fe0 D09002ee1c80850c4 United States Department of Agriculture originator org United States Government Agency or Subagency United States Food Safety and Inspection Service originator org United States Government Agency or Subagency FSIS is conforming its regulations to the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) regulations, entitled, "Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Beef, Pork, Lamb, Chicken, Goat Meat, Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Peanuts, Pecans, Ginseng, and Macademia Nuts." Therefore, FSIS is amending its regulations to require that a country of origin statement on the label of any meat or poultry product that is a covered commodity, as defined in AMS' interim final regulations (73 FR 45106), and is to be sold by a retailer, as also defined in AMS' interim final regulation, must comply with AMS' interim final regulations. FSIS is also amending its regulations to provide that the addition of country of origin statements on labels of meat or poultry product covered commodities that are to be sold by covered retailers and that comply with the country of origin labeling requirements will be considered to be generically approved. FSIS is not amending its regulations or labeling policies for meat or poultry products that are non-covered commodities. The effective date of AMS' interim final rule for country of origin labeling is September 30, 2008. Therefore, in order to meet the deadline, FSIS is issuing this interim final rule. 73 FR 50701 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2008-08-28/E8-19882 E8-19882 fr28au08-1 RIN 0583-AD38 3410-DM-P Docket No. FSIS-2008-0027 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2008-08-28/E8-19882 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-08-28/html/E8-19882.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-08-28/pdf/E8-19882.pdf Food Labeling Meat Inspection Poultry and Poultry Products 3 p. 50701 50703 73 FR 50701 Title 9 Part 317 9 CFR Part 317 Title 9 Part 381 9 CFR Part 381 RIN 0583-AD38 Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Muscle Cuts of Beef (Including Veal), Lamb, Chicken, Goat, and Pork; Ground Beef, Ground Lamb, Ground Chicken, Ground Goat, and Ground Pork; Federal Register Vol. 73, Issue RULE E8-19882 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food Safety and Inspection Service 2008-09-30 Docket No. FSIS-2008-0027 3410-DM-P E8-19882 Interim final rule with request for comments.

FSIS is conforming its regulations to the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) regulations, entitled, "Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Beef, Pork, Lamb, Chicken, Goat Meat, Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Peanuts, Pecans, Ginseng, and Macademia Nuts." Therefore, FSIS is amending its regulations to require that a country of origin statement on the label of any meat or poultry product that is a covered commodity, as defined in AMS' interim final regulations (73 FR 45106), and is to be sold by a retailer, as also defined in AMS' interim final regulation, must comply with AMS' interim final regulations. FSIS is also amending its regulations to provide that the addition of country of origin statements on labels of meat or poultry product covered commodities that are to be sold by covered retailers and that comply with the country of origin labeling requirements will be considered to be generically approved. FSIS is not amending its regulations or labeling policies for meat or poultry products that are non-covered commodities. The effective date of AMS' interim final rule for country of origin labeling is September 30, 2008. Therefore, in order to meet the deadline, FSIS is issuing this interim final rule.

Effective Date: This interim final rule is effective September 30, 2008. Charles Gioglio, Director, Labeling and Program Delivery Division, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250-3700; (202) 205-0010. Food Labeling Meat Inspection Poultry and Poultry Products Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling: Muscle Cuts of Beef (Including Veal), Lamb, Chicken, Goat, and Pork; Ground Beef, Ground Lamb, Ground Chicken, Ground Goat, and Ground Pork, http://www.fsis.usda.gov/news_and_events/email_subscription/ http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Regulations_&_Policies/2008_Interim_&_Final_Rules_Index/index.asp http://www.regulations.gov regulations.gov Vol. 73, no. 168 Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration 2008-08-28 continuing daily deposited born digital 185 p. Table of Contents: AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: KF70.A2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2008-08-28 P0b002ee18099da4a 0097-6326 0042-1219 0364-1406 769-004-00000-9 000582072 f:fr28au08 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2008-08-28 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-08-28/pdf/FR-2008-08-28.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-08-28/xml/FR-2008-08-28.xml fdlp 50697 50870 DGPO 2010-09-23 2024-06-05 FR-2008-08-28 machine generated eng FR FR-2008-08-28 73 168