WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/136/Add.4
24 April 2001
(01-2036)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 18 April 2001, has been received from the
United States.
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Retained Water in Raw Meat and Poultry Products - Poultry Chilling Requirements
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is correcting errors in a final rule (notified as
G/SPS/N/USA/136/Add.3), published in the Federal Register of 9 January 2001, limiting the amount
of retained water in raw meat and poultry products and amending the poultry chilling requirements.The Agency made inadvertent paragraph designation and other errors in the amended regulatory text
and in corresponding preamble references to the regu latory amendments.  One such error affected the
regulation preventing poultry with fecal contamination from entering the chiller.  The Agency is also
adding a cross-reference to a provision on the sources of ice and water used for chilling to ensure that
the regulations on this subject are read consistently.
Effective date:  9 January 2002The full text of these corrections to the final rule is available from the U.S. SPS Enquiry
Point/Notification Authority:
Tel:  202 720-9124
Fax:  202 690-0677
E-mail:  ofsts@fas.usda.gov
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