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14 April 2022  
(22-3098) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 13 April 2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of  the United States of America . 
 
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Changes to the Salmonella Verification Testing Program: Proposed Performance Standards for 
Salmonella in Raw Comminuted Pork and Intact or Non -Intact Pork Cuts and Related Agency 
Verification Procedures  
The US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the 
comment due date to 2 June 2022.  
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FSIS -2019-0023-0001 
This addendum concerns a:  
[X] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdraw al of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the  addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 2 June 2022  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Addres s, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
Rachel Edelstein, Assistant Administrator, USDA FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development by 
telephone at +(202) 205 0495.  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
 
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