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25 May 2023  
(23-3553) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 22 May 2023, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Proposed Determination and Request for Comments: Salmonella  in Not -Ready -To-Eat Breaded 
Stuffed Chicken Products  
The US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the 
comment deadline on the Proposed Determination and Request for Comments  on proposing to de clare 
Salmonella an adulterant in not -ready -to-eat (NRTE) breaded stuffed chicken products. The deadline 
for comments was originally 27 June 2023. The Proposed Determination and Request for Comments 
will be open for comments for an additional 30 days, unti l to 27 July 2023.  
FSIS is proposing to declare that NRTE breaded stuffed chicken products that contain Salmonella  at 
levels of 1 colony forming unit (CFU) per gram or higher are adulterated within the meaning of the 
Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA).  Although the labeling of these products has undergone 
significant changes over time to better inform consumers that they are raw and to provide instructions 
on how to prepare them safely, NRTE breaded stuffed chicken products continue to be associated 
with Salmonella  illness outbreaks. Therefore, FSIS has concluded that domestic public health 
measures that focus primarily on product labeling and consumer handling practices have not been 
effective in preventing additional foodborne illnesses associated with  NRTE breaded stuffed chicken 
products. FSIS is also proposing to carry out verification procedures at regulated facilities, including 
sampling and testing of the chicken component of these products prior to stuffing and breading, to 
ensure producing estab lishments control Salmonella  in these products.  
FSIS invites interested persons to submit comments on this proposed determination and the proposed 
verification procedures. FSIS specifically requests comments on alternative bases for determining 
adulteratio n of breaded stuffed NRTE products. Please submit comments on or before 27 July 2023.  
Full text for this Federal Register notice (88 FR 26249) and instructions for submitting comments can 
be accessed at:  
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FSIS -2022-0013-0001 
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/documents/FSIS -2022-0013.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/SPS/USA/23_09720_00_e.pdf  
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  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  G/SPS/N/USA/3381/Add.1  
 
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  Comment period: (If the adde ndum 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 extensi on 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) : 27 July 2023  
Agency or authority designated to h andle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, 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 +(1 202) 937 4272.  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FSIS -2022-0013-0001 
https://www.govinfo.gov/cont ent/pkg/FR -2023-04-28/html/2023 -09043.htm  
 
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