Notifications for United States of America (932 notifications)

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of novaluron in or on almond, hulls and the tree nut group 14-12.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of ipflufenoquin in or on almond, almond, hulls, and fruit, pome, group 11-10.

This regulation amends tolerances for residues of fluopyram in or on cereal grain crop group 15 (except corn and rice), rapeseed subgroup 20A, and multiple animal commodities.

This document announces the Agency's receipt of several initial filings of pesticide petitions requesting the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities.

The US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing and requesting comment on proposed pathogen reduction performance standards for Salmonella in raw comminuted pork and raw intact or non-intact pork cuts. FSIS is also announcing how it plans to assess whether US establishments producing these products are effectively addressing Salmonella using a moving window of FSIS sampling results. Approximately one year (52 weeks) after the new performance standards are made final, FSIS plans to post online each US pork establishment's performance category, based on the most recent 52 Salmonella sample results. The notice discusses other verification activities related to FSIS Salmonella sampling and testing of raw pork products. Finally, the notice provides a brief summary of FSIS's recent announcements concerning Salmonella in poultry products. FSIS will consider comments received on this notice before announcing the final performance standards in the Federal Register and assessing whether US pork establishments meet them. Please submit comments on or before 18 April 2022. Full text for this Federal Register notice (87 FR 8774) can be accessed at:  >https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/02/16/2022-03301/changes-to-the-salmonella-verification-testing-program-proposed-performance-standards-for-salmonella

The US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing that, beginning on 16 May 2022, approved export certificates will be printed on plain paper rather than security paper for those countries and territories that receive digitally signed export certificates (FSIS Form 9060-5 series) generated in FSIS' Public Health Information System (PHIS). This plain paper version will continue to facilitate lawful entry of the certified shipment into the importing country when a paper certificate is required, and will include a watermark stating, "Approved Certificate – Available for Validation in PHIS". A sample of FSIS Form 9060-5 with the new watermark is attached to this notification. Note that PHIS-generated 9060-5 series export certificates for shipments certified for export before 16 May 2022, will be printed on security paper and without the watermark indicated above. PHIS does not include egg products or casings at this time. Therefore, these changes will not affect certification of egg products or casings. FSIS' PHIS generates a digitally signed Form 9060-5 series export certificate, which is retained in PHIS as a PDF document for secure viewing and authentication by an importing country's government officials who have chosen to register for PHIS access through the Certificate Signature Viewer (CSV) role. FSIS has streamlined procedures to access the CSV role, which requires both USDA eAuthentication and enrolling as a CSV. Please contact FSIS at internationalcoordination@usda.gov to obtain these procedures. In addition to viewing and authenticating the digitally signed PDF certificate in PHIS, CSV users can validate digital signatures and other certificate details using public key cryptography to further validate the export certificate's authenticity. The importing country's users will also have the capability to generate reports on certificates issued to the importing country. More information on these capabilities is available in FSIS' CSV User Guidehttps://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-07/USDA-FSIS-PHIS-Certificate-Signature-Viewer-Quick-Reference-Guide.pdf The presence of the digitally signed certificate in the secure, role-based PHIS makes the use of traditional security paper unnecessary. Certificates generated by PHIS are digitally signed by authorized FSIS inspection program personnel. Each certificate includes a unique certificate number.  FSIS has implemented the PHIS export component with 80 countries and territories (see FSIS' website, PHIS Components, under "Country Rollout Schedule," https://www.fsis.usda.gov/inspection/import-export/phis-components). For those countries, all country requirements documented in the FSIS Export Libraryhttps://www.fsis.usda.gov/inspection/import-export/import-export-library), including attestations, are captured on the PHIS-generated FSIS Form 9060-5 export certificate series (FSIS Form 9060-5 remarks section, or FSIS Form 9060-5B continuation sheet,). Countries interested in being included in PHIS should contact FSIS at internationalcoordination@usda.gov for more information.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that we have filed a petition, submitted by Motif FoodWorks, Inc., proposing that the color additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of myoglobin as a color additive in meat and poultry analogue products. The color additive petition was filed on 13 December 2021.

This regulation establishes or amends tolerances for residues of fludioxonil in or on multiple crops.

This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of nitrapyrin in or on cottonseed, crop subgroup 20C; cotton, gin byproducts; cotton, meal; rice, grain; and rice, straw.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-01-26/html/2022-01487.htm

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on 3 December 2021. The document amended our regulations to establish a program for the testing of food in certain circumstances by accredited laboratories, as required under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The final rule published with some editorial and inadvertent errors. This document corrects those errors.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of cyprodinil in or on multiple crops.

We are advising the public that we have prepared a pest risk analysis relative to the importation of three Acer spp. ( Acer buergerianum, A. palmatum, and A. pseudosieboldianum ) dwarf plants from the Republic of Korea into the continental United States. Currently, Acer spp. are included in our lists of taxa of plants for planting whose importation into the United States is not authorized pending pest risk analysis. Based on the findings of the pest risk analysis, we are proposing to remove Acer buergerianum, A. palmatum, and A. pseudosieboldianum dwarf plants from the Republic of Korea from the not authorized pending plant risk analysis lists, thereby allowing the importation of such Acer spp. into the United States, subject to certain conditions. We are making the pest risk analysis available to the public for review and comment. (Federal Register Vol. 87, No. 20; Monday 31 January 2022; pp. 4832-4833

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is proposing to amend its regulations relating to the procedures by which we determine that a premarket notification for a food contact substance (FCN) is no longer effective. The proposed rule, if finalized, would, among other things, ensure that manufacturers or suppliers have the opportunity to provide input before we could determine that an FCN is no longer effective. The proposed rule also would provide additional reasons that could be the basis for FDA to determine that an FCN is no longer effective. We are proposing these changes to better enable FDA to respond to new information on the safety and use of food contact substances, as well as manufacturers' business decisions, which would also improve our FCN program's efficiency.

We are advising the public of our decision to revise the requirements relative to the importation into the United States of plums from Chile. Based on the findings of a commodity import evaluation document, which we made available to the public for review and comment through a previous notice, we have determined that, in addition to the existing option of irradiation, plums from Chile may safely be imported under a systems approach for mitigation of the risk posed by European grapevine moth, with an additional option for fumigation with methyl bromide. (Federal Register Vol. 87, No. 16, Tuesday 25 January 2022, pg. 3756-3758)

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of ethaboxam in or on Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 4-16B and Vegetable, Brassica, head and stem, group 5-16.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing revisions to its pesticide tolerance crop grouping regulations, which allow the establishment of tolerances for multiple related crops based on data from a representative set of crops. EPA is proposing amendments to Crop Group 6: Legume Vegetables; Crop Group 7: Foliage of Legume Vegetables; Crop Group 15: Cereal Grains; and Crop Group 16: Forage, Fodder and Straw of Cereal Grains. EPA is also proposing amendments to the associated commodity definitions. This is the sixth in a series of planned crop group updates expected to be prepared over the next several years.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of trifloxystrobin in or on multiple commodities.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to add Lithuania to the list of countries eligible to export egg products to the United States. After extensive review, FSIS determined that Lithuania's egg product laws, regulations, and inspection system achieve an equivalent level of protection as applied domestically in the United States under the Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA) and its implementing regulations. FSIS is requesting public comment before it makes a final determination. Should FSIS make a final determination to list Lithuania as eligible to ship egg products to the United States, only egg products produced in certified Lithuanian establishments would be eligible for export to the United States. Imported Lithuanian egg products would be subject to reinspection at U.S. points-of-entry by FSIS inspectors and FSIS would evaluate and verify on an ongoing basis the equivalence of Lithuania's food safety inspection system for egg products through document reviews, on-site audits, and point-of-entry reinspection, as done for all countries exporting to the United States. FSIS will announce its final determination in a subsequent Federal Register notice. Full text for this Federal Register notice (86 FR 73721) can be accessed at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/28/2021-28119/eligibility-of-lithuania-to-export-egg-products-to-the-united-states

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of spinetoram in or on multiple commodities.