Agriculture Department, Food Safety and Inspection Service
FSIS is announcing updates to and responding to comments on its guideline to assist meat (including Siluriformes fish and fish products) and poultry establishments in meeting the regulatory requirements for calculating the correct retained water percentage in raw livestock, poultry, and Siluriformes fish carcasses and parts resulting from post-evisceration processing. FSIS is providing clarification based on arithmetic errors commonly encountered in protocol reviews.
Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service [Docket No. FSIS-2022-0014] AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). ACTION: Notice of availability; response to comments. SUMMARY: FSIS is announcing updates to and responding to comments on its guideline to assist meat (including Siluriformes fish and fish products) and poultry establishments in meeting the regulatory requirements for calculating the correct retained water percentage in raw livestock, poultry, and Siluriformes fish carcasses and parts resulting from post-evisceration processing. FSIS is providing clarification based on arithmetic errors commonly encountered in protocol reviews. DATES: Establishments will have until March 3, 2025, to submit their revised protocols to the Risk Management and Innovations Staff (RMIS) via askFSIS for review. Establishments will have until January 1, 2026, to make any necessary label changes. The Office of Field Operations will start reviewing establishments' retained water protocols on October 1, 2025. ADDRESSES: A downloadable version of the guideline is available at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/​policy/​fsis-guidelines . FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel A. Edelstein, Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Program Development, FSIS; USDA, Telephone: (202) 205-0495. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On April 1, 2024, FSIS published a revised guideline to assist meat and poultry establishments …
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Citation: 90 FR 5809
