WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/401/Add.2
12 July 2001
(01-3461)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 3 July 2001, has been received from the United States.
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Performance Standards for the Production of Processed Meat and
Poultry Products;  Reopening of Comment Period
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is reopening and extending until
10 September 2001, the comment period for the proposed regulations concerning ready-to-eat and
partially heat-treated meat and poultry products that closed on 28 June 2001.  As of 28 June 2001,
FSIS is reopening and extending the comment period in response to a request from a consortium of
trade associations.
Comments on the proposed regulations must be received on or before 10 September 2001.
Detailed instruction on where and how to send co mments is in the body of the full text of this
addendum (full text also available on original notification) which will be sent upon request to the
following address:
United States SPS Enquiry Point/Notification Authority
USDA/FAS/FSTSD
ATTN:  Carolyn F. Wilson
Room 5545 South Agriculture Building
Stop 1027
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20250
Phone (202) 720-2239
Fax (202) 690-0677
Email Address:  ofsts@fas.usda.gov
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