The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) this week announced an extension to the comment period titled “HACCP Plan Reassessment for Not-Ready-to-Eat Comminuted Poultry Products and Related Agency Verification Procedures.” The public comment period will remain open until April 20.
FSIS also announced it will provide an additional 45 days for establishments that produce not-ready-to-eat comminuted chicken products to reassess their Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans for those products. FSIS will postpone by 45 days the date inspection personnel begin verifying that those establishments have reassessed their HACCP plans.
Starting on approximately April 20, FSIS intends to start obtaining samples of product to determine the prevalence of Salmonella in the NRTE comminuted poultry product. Comments may be submitted electronically at http://www.regulations.gov/.
