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Notifying
Member: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
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Agency
responsible: U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
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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): Poultry and poultry
products
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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: Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry
Products. Language(s): English. Number of
pages: 71
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/07/2024-16963/salmonella-framework-for-raw-poultry-products
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_05399_00_e.pdf
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Description
of content: FSIS is announcing its
proposed determination that raw chicken carcasses, chicken parts, comminuted
chicken, and comminuted turkey products contaminated with certain Salmonella levels and serotypes are
adulterated within the meaning of the Poultry Products Inspection Act. The
proposed determination would establish final product standards based on these
Salmonella levels and serotypes
and would prevent raw chicken carcasses, chicken parts, comminuted chicken,
and comminuted turkey products that contain Salmonella
at the levels and serotypes that would render them adulterated from entering
commerce. FSIS is also proposing to revise the regulations that require that
all poultry slaughter establishments develop, implement, and maintain written
procedures to prevent contamination by enteric pathogens throughout the
entire slaughter and dressing operation to clarify that these procedures must
include a microbial monitoring program that incorporates statistical process
control monitoring methods, to require sampling at rehang instead of
pre-chill, and to require that all establishments conduct paired sampling at
rehang and post-chill.
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Objective
and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] 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?
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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): To be determined.
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy):
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Proposed
date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy):
To be determined.
[ ] 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): 7 October 2024
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 Further Information Contact
Rachel
Edelstein, Assistant Administrator, USDA FSIS Office of Policy and Program
Development by telephone at + (1 202) 205 0495.
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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:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/07/2024-16963/salmonella-framework-for-raw-poultry-products
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