News Article

Laws and Regulations Committee Update 8/28 - 9/1, 2017

Posted on September 01, 2017

Blog: Association of Food & Drug Officials (AFDO)

August 28, 2017

Federal Register

Food and Drug Administration

Notices

Food Safety Modernization Act Third-Party Certification Program User Fee Rate for Fiscal Year 2018

Filed on: 08/28/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 08/29/2017

FR Document: 2017-18222 PDF 10 Pages (187 KB) Permalink

Agriculture Department

Notices

Requests for Nominations: Members for National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board, Specialty Crop Committee, and National Genetics Advisory Council

Filed on: 08/25/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 08/29/2017

FR Document: 2017-18180 PDF 7 Pages (178 KB) Permalink

Environmental Protection Agency

Pesticide Product Registrations: Product Cancellation Order to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations and Amend Registrations to Terminate Certain Uses

Filed on: 08/28/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 08/29/2017

FR Document: 2017-17619 PDF 19 Pages (71.3 KB) Permalink

AMS

USDA Shell Eggs and Egg Products Purchase Program Announced

FSIS

Blossom Foods, LLC Recalls Frozen Meat Products Due to Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens

Ronald A. Chisholm, Ltd. Recalls Pork Belly Products Produced Without Benefit of Import Inspection

DiLuigi Foods Inc. Recalls Chicken Sausage Products Due to Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens

Aug 25, 2017 | PDF

FSIS Makes the National Antimicrobial Monitoring System Findings Available
Web-Based Lookup Table Available for the List of Safe and Suitable Ingredients
Healthy People 2030: HHS Requesting Public Comments
E. coli Testing Update

AskFSIS

Federal and State Inspection in the Same Facility

Retail operations separated from FSIS

GIPSA

Interstate Regional Stockyards, Inc. Assessed $5,000 Civil Penalty (PDF; 43KB)

August 29, 2017

FDA

Warning Letters

Letter Issue Date	Company Name	Issuing Office	Subject	Close Out Date
08/21/2017	Louie Foods International	San Francisco District Office	CGMP Food/Prepared, Packed or Held Under Insanitary Conditions/Adulterated	Not Issued *
08/16/2017	Total Nutrition Inc	New York District Office	CGMP/Dietary Supplement/Adulterated/Misbranded	Not Issued *
06/01/2017	Seiki Co., Ltd.	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition	Seafood HACCP/CGMP for Foods/Adulterated/Insanitary Conditions	Not Issued *
05/19/2017	Etai's Food, Inc	Denver District Office	Seafood HACCP/CGMP for Foods/Adulterated/Misbranded	Not Issued *

Recalls

Date	Brand Name	Product Description	Reason/ Problem	Company
08/28/2017	Big Win	Popcorn	Undeclared milk	Dedinas-Franzak Enterprises

USDA

APHIS Provides Animal Assistance in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey

AskFSIS

Use of water-saving devices for poultry inspection stations

August 30, 2017

Federal Register

FDA

Food and Drug Administration

Proposed Rules Guidance: Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food

Filed on: 08/30/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 08/31/2017

FR Document: 2017-18464 PDF 6 Pages (30.5 KB) Permalink

Ø The notice announces availability of another draft chapter of a multichapter guidance for industry entitled "Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food: Guidance for Industry." The newly available draft chapter is entitled "Chapter Six--Use of Heat Treatments as a Process Control."

FSIS

Notices

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Accreditation of Laboratories, Transactions, and Exemptions

Filed on: 08/30/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 08/31/2017

FR Document: 2017-18490 PDF 8 Pages (90.4 KB) Permalink

Public Health Information System

Filed on: 08/30/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 08/31/2017

FR Document: 2017-18491 PDF 10 Pages (92.8 KB) Permalink

Salmonella Initiative Program

Filed on: 08/30/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 08/31/2017

FR Document: 2017-18497 PDF 8 Pages (89.9 KB) Permalink

FSIS

USDA Integrates Recalls Information into 'FoodKeeper' Application

OMB

Fall 2017 Data Call for the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions

August 31, 2017

Federal Register

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Rules

Changes to the Inspection Coverage in Official Establishments That Slaughter Fish of the Order Siluriformes

Filed on: 08/31/2017 at 08:45 am Scheduled Pub. Date: 09/01/2017

FR Document: 2017-18591 PDF 14 Pages (140 KB) Permalink

FDA

FDA Releases Sixth Chapter of Draft Guidance for the PC-Human Food Rule

Recalls

Date	Brand	Product Description	Reason/Problem	Company
08/30/2017	Big Win, Uncle Ray's, Gourmet Select, more	Popcorn	Undeclared milk	Dedinas Franzak Enterprises
08/30/2017	Rajbhog Sweets	Jalebi	Undeclared almonds	Rajbhog Distributors GA. Inc.

USDA

Recalls

Product Recalled	Date of Recall	Retail Distribution List
099-2017 Demakes Enterprises, Inc. Recalls Chicken Sausage Product Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens	Aug 30, 2017	N/A