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    <RIN_INFO>
        <RIN>0583-AC51</RIN>
        <PUBLICATION>
            <PUBLICATION_ID>200210</PUBLICATION_ID>
            <PUBLICATION_TITLE>The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions</PUBLICATION_TITLE>
        </PUBLICATION>
        <AGENCY>
            <CODE>0583</CODE>
            <NAME>Food Safety and Inspection Service</NAME>
            <ACRONYM>FSIS</ACRONYM>
        </AGENCY>
        <PARENT_AGENCY>
            <CODE>0500</CODE>
            <NAME>Department of Agriculture</NAME>
            <ACRONYM>USDA</ACRONYM>
        </PARENT_AGENCY>
        <RULE_TITLE>Meat Produced by Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Recovery Systems</RULE_TITLE>
        <ABSTRACT><![CDATA[In 1994, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) amended its regulations to recognize that products resulting from advanced meat/bone separation machinery comes within the definition of meat when recovery systems are operated to assure that the characteristics and composition of the resulting product are consistent with those of meat. Subsequent compliance problems and other concerns have made it apparent that the regulations are inadequate to prevent misbranding and economic adulteration. Therefore, FSIS is developing a rule to clarify the regulations and supplement the rules for assuring compliance.]]></ABSTRACT>
        <PRIORITY_CATEGORY>Other Significant</PRIORITY_CATEGORY>
        <RIN_STATUS>Previously Published in The Unified Agenda</RIN_STATUS>
        <RULE_STAGE>Final Rule Stage</RULE_STAGE>
        <MAJOR>No</MAJOR>
        <UNFUNDED_MANDATE_LIST>
            <UNFUNDED_MANDATE>No</UNFUNDED_MANDATE>
        </UNFUNDED_MANDATE_LIST>
        <CFR_LIST>
            <CFR>9 CFR 301.2</CFR>
            <CFR>9 CFR 318.24 (Revision)</CFR>
            <CFR>9 CFR 320.1(b)(10)</CFR>
        </CFR_LIST>
        <LEGAL_AUTHORITY_LIST>
            <LEGAL_AUTHORITY>21 USC 601 to 695</LEGAL_AUTHORITY>
        </LEGAL_AUTHORITY_LIST>
        <LEGAL_DLINE_LIST/>
        <RPLAN_ENTRY>Yes</RPLAN_ENTRY>
        <RPLAN_INFO>
            <STMT_OF_NEED><![CDATA[In 1998, FSIS proposed to clarify the meat inspection regulations regarding mechanically separated meat contained in a final rule issued in December 1995.  The rule would replace the present compliance program parameters with non-compliance criteria for bone and bone-related material.  The rule would require, as a prerequisite to labeling or using product derived by mechanically separating skeletal muscle tissue from cattle and swine bones as meat, that establishments implement and document procedures for ensuring that their production process is in control. The proposed rule was published in 1998.  

FSIS intends to implement more rigid measures for central nervous system tissue and prohibiting the use of vertebral columns in the AMR final product unless the establishment can demonstrate effective process control to ensure that no spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia will be present in the final AMR product. Current FSIS policy prohibits the presence of spinal cord in AMR products but not the presence of DRG or the use of vertebral columns. In January 2002, FSIS began the first of two surveys on AMR products derived from non-vertebral and vertebral beef and pork columns.]]></STMT_OF_NEED>
            <LEGAL_BASIS><![CDATA[This action is authorized under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601-695).]]></LEGAL_BASIS>
            <ALTERNATIVES><![CDATA[No action.]]></ALTERNATIVES>
            <COSTS_AND_BENEFITS><![CDATA[Although the 1998 proposed rule was determined to be not economically significant, FSIS restudied the projected costs using data from various FSIS data bases and other sources to develop an improved estimate of the benefits and costs of implementing the final rule.  To date, it appears that the final rule will not be economically significant, but data evaluation continues.  The benefit of enforcing the misbranding provisions will ensure that the product does not contain materials not consistent with boneless, comminuted meat.]]></COSTS_AND_BENEFITS>
            <RISKS><![CDATA[None.]]></RISKS>
        </RPLAN_INFO>
        <TIMETABLE_LIST>
            <TIMETABLE>
                <TTBL_ACTION>NPRM</TTBL_ACTION>
                <TTBL_DATE>04/13/1998</TTBL_DATE>
                <FR_CITATION>63 FR 17959</FR_CITATION>
            </TIMETABLE>
            <TIMETABLE>
                <TTBL_ACTION>NPRM Comment Period End</TTBL_ACTION>
                <TTBL_DATE>06/12/1998</TTBL_DATE>
            </TIMETABLE>
            <TIMETABLE>
                <TTBL_ACTION>Final Action</TTBL_ACTION>
                <TTBL_DATE>09/00/2003</TTBL_DATE>
            </TIMETABLE>
        </TIMETABLE_LIST>
        <RFA_REQUIRED>Undetermined</RFA_REQUIRED>
        <GOVT_LEVEL_LIST>
            <GOVT_LEVEL>None</GOVT_LEVEL>
        </GOVT_LEVEL_LIST>
        <FEDERALISM>No</FEDERALISM>
        <PRINT_PAPER>NA</PRINT_PAPER>
        <INTERNATIONAL_INTEREST>Not Collected</INTERNATIONAL_INTEREST>
        <AGENCY_CONTACT_LIST>
            <CONTACT>
                <FIRST_NAME>Daniel</FIRST_NAME>
                <LAST_NAME>Engeljohn</LAST_NAME>
                <MIDDLE_NAME>L</MIDDLE_NAME>
                <PREFIX>Dr.</PREFIX>
                <TITLE>Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Program Development</TITLE>
                <AGENCY>
                    <CODE>0583</CODE>
                    <NAME>Food Safety and Inspection Service</NAME>
                    <ACRONYM>FSIS</ACRONYM>
                </AGENCY>
                <PHONE>202 205-0495</PHONE>
                <FAX>202 720-2025</FAX>
                <EMAIL>daniel.engeljohn@fsis.usda.gov</EMAIL>
                <MAILING_ADDRESS>
                    <STREET_ADDRESS>Room 402 Cotton Annex Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., 349-E JWB,</STREET_ADDRESS>
                    <CITY>Washington</CITY>
                    <STATE>DC</STATE>
                    <ZIP>20250</ZIP>
                </MAILING_ADDRESS>
            </CONTACT>
        </AGENCY_CONTACT_LIST>
    </RIN_INFO>
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