Notifications for United States of America (932 notifications)

This regulation establishes a crop group tolerance for residues of flonicamid in or on the commodities in sunflower subgroup 20B.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Federal poultry products inspection regulations to add Honduras to the list of countries eligible to export poultry products to the United States. The FSIS review of Honduras' laws, regulations, and inspection system demonstrated that its poultry slaughter inspection system is equivalent to the system FSIS has established under the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) and its implementing regulations. Text is available in English at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-04-05/pdf/2019-06662.pdf

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Federal poultry products inspection regulations to add Honduras to the list of countries eligible to export poultry products to the United States. The FSIS review of Honduras' laws, regulations, and inspection system demonstrated that its poultry slaughter inspection system is equivalent to the system FSIS has established under the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) and its implementing regulations. This notification is the same as G/SPS/N/EQV/USA/1, notified recently. Text is available in English at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-04-05/pdf/2019-06662.pdf.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is confirming the effective date of 4 December 2018, for the final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of 1 November 2018, and that amended the color additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of synthetic iron oxides as color additives to include use in dietary supplement tablets and capsules.DATES: Effective date of final rule published in the Federal Register of 1 November 2018 (83 FR 54869) confirmed: 4 December 2018.

APHIS is advising the public that it has prepared a pest risk analysis relative to the importation into the United States of fragrant pears from an additional area of production in China. Based on the findings of the analysis, APHIS is proposing to authorize the importation of fragrant pears from this additional area of production in China and revise the conditions under which fragrant pears from authorized areas of production in China may be imported into the United States. APHIS is making the pest risk analysis available to the public for review and comment.  (Federal Register Vol. 84, No. 74, Wednesday, 17 April 2019, pp. 15994-15995)

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of metrafenone in or on mushroom.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of zoxamide in or on Pepper/Eggplant Subgroup 8-10B.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of mandipropamid in or on multiple commodities which are identified and discussed later in this document.

APHIS is advising the public that it is making available a draft programmatic environmental assessment for the importation of plants in approved growing media. The programmatic environmental assessment considers the potential environmental effects of a standardized set of pest risk mitigations for routine market requests to import plants in approved growing media. The programmatic environmental assessment would eliminate the need to prepare a unique environmental assessment for each routine market request, thereby making the process for approving imports of plants in approved growing media simpler and more efficient. APHIS is making the programmatic environmental assessment available to the public for review and comment. (Federal Register Vol. 84, No. 69, Wednesday, 10 April 2019, pg. 14340)

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of sulfometuron-methyl in or on sugarcane, cane.

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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to revise the quality standard for bottled water to specify that bottled water to which fluoride is added by the manufacturer may not contain fluoride in excess of 0.7 milligrams per liter (mg/L). This action, if finalized, will revise the current allowable levels for fluoride in domestically packaged and imported bottled water to which fluoride is added. We are taking this action to make the quality standard regulation for fluoride added to bottled water consistent with the recommendation by the US Public Health Service (PHS) for community water systems that add fluoride for the prevention of dental caries. This action, if finalized, will not affect the allowable levels for fluoride in bottled water to which fluoride is not added by the manufacturer (such bottled water may contain fluoride from its source water).

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting with technical amendments two final rules that published in the Federal Register of 17 September 2015, and one final rule that published in the Federal Register of 27 November 2015. The final rules published with editorial and inadvertent errors. This document corrects those errors.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting with technical amendments two final rules that published in the Federal Register of 17 September 2015, and one final rule that published in the Federal Register of 27 November 2015. The final rules published with editorial and inadvertent errors. This document corrects those errors.

APHIS is affirming the supplemental requirements it added for the importation of fresh sweet orange, grapefruit, mandarin, clementine, and tangerine fruit from Colombia into the United States. In a previous notice, APHIS made available to the public for review and comment supplemental requirements for mitigating pest risks posed by the importation of these commodities from Colombia into the United States. APHIS also made available a pest risk assessment and commodity import evaluation document. After reviewing the comments we received on those documents, APHIS is affirming the supplemental requirements it added to the Fruits and Vegetables Import Requirements database. (Federal Register Vol. 84, No. 58, Tuesday, 26 March 2019, pp. 11279-11281)

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.

APHIS is proposing to establish standards to allow it to recognize compartments for animal disease status, consistent with World Organization for Animal Health international standards. Under this proposed rule, when a foreign government submits a request for recognition of a compartment, APHIS would conduct a disease risk assessment based on a list of eight factors that closely parallel those we use when conducting regionalization evaluations, and would provide for public notice of and comment on the risk assessment. APHIS would also add provisions for imposing import restrictions and/or prohibitions when a compartment it has recognized as disease-free experiences an outbreak and for lifting those sanctions once the outbreak has been controlled. These proposed standards would provide a tool that may be used to preserve international trade when regionalization is not feasible. (Federal Register Vol. 84, No. 64, Wednesday, 3 April 2019, pages 12955-12959)

APHIS is advising the public that it has added China to the list of regions that it considers to be affected with African swine fever (ASF). APHIS is taking this action because of the confirmation of ASF in China.  (Federal Register Vol. 84, No. 58, Tuesday, 26 March 2019, pp. 11281-11282)

APHIS is advising the public that it has prepared a pest risk analysis that evauates the risks associated with the importation of fresh jujbe fruit from China into the Continental United States. Based on the analysis, we have determined that the applicatio of one or more phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds via the importation of fresh jujube fruit from China. APHIS is making the pest risk analysis available to the public for review and comment. (Federal Register Vol. 84, No. 57, Monday, 25 March 2019, pp. 11046-11047)

APHIS is advising the public that it is proposing to recognize Singapore as being free of foot-and-mouth disease. This proposed recognition is based on an evaluation we have prepared in connection with this action, which we are making available for review and comment. (Federal Register Vol. 84, No. 53, Tuesday, 19 March 2019, pp. 10024-10025)