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Notifying
Member: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
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Agency
responsible: Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
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Products
covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable): Preparations of a kind
used in animal feeding (HS code(s): 2309); Food technology (ICS code(s): 67)
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Regions
or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
[X] All trading partners
[ ] Specific regions or
countries:
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Title of
the notified document: Green
Innovation GmbH; Filing of Food Additive Petition (Animal Use); Notification
of Petition. Language(s): English. Number of
pages: 1
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-21226
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2025/SPS/USA/25_08259_00_e.pdf
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Description
of content: The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that we have filed a food additive
petition, submitted by Green Innovation GmbH, proposing that we amend our
food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of hydrolyzed lignin as
a source of neutral detergent soluble fiber in food for broiler chickens,
laying hens, turkeys, growing swine, sows, lactating dairy cows, beef cattle,
sheep, goats, salmonids, and adult dogs at no more than 1% of the food on a
weight basis or 10 kilograms per metric ton of food.
The food
additive petition was filed on 26 September 2025.
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Objective
and rationale: [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ]
protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from
other damage from pests.
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Is there
a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text):
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health
(OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code,
chapter number):
[ ] International Plant Protection
Convention (e.g. ISPM number):
[X] None
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international
standard?
[ ] Yes [ ] No
If no,
describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international
standard:
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Other
relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:
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Proposed
date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): Not applicable.
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): Not applicable.
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Proposed
date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy):
Not applicable.
[X] Trade facilitating
measure
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Final
date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): Not applicable.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National
Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and
e-mail address (if available) of other body:
For access to
the docket to read background documents or 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.
For
further information contact: Ms. Megan Hall, Center for Veterinary Medicine,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 5001 Campus Drive, College Park, MD
20740–3835, 301–796–3801, Megan.Hall@fda.hhs.gov.
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Text(s) available from: [ ] National
Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and
e-mail address (if available) of other body:
Text can be found in the Federal Register, Vol. 90, No. 226, Page
54245 or on the Internet at: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-21226
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