Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals; Extension of Comment Period

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is extending the comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking that appeared in the Federal Register of 29 October 2013 (78 FR 64736), entitled Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals and its information collection provisions. We are taking this action in response to requests for an extension to allow interested persons more time to comment given that in addition to the proposed preventive control requirements, the proposed current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements are also new to the animal food industry, unlike the human food industry.

Text available at: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/02/03/2014-02111/current-good-manufacturing-practice-and-hazard-analysis-and-risk-based-preventive-controls-for-food.

This addendum concerns a:

[X]          Modification of final date for comments

[ ]           Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation

[ ]           Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation

[ ]           Withdrawal of proposed regulation

[ ]           Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force

[ ]           Other:  

Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)

[ ]           Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 31 March 2014

Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

Kim Young,

Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration,

7519 Standish Pl., Rockville,

MD 20855, +(240) 276 2207.

Text available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

United States SPS National Notification Authority,

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service,

International Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD),

Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250;

Tel: +(1 202) 720 1301;

Fax: +(1 202) 720 0433;

 E-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov