| Docket No. 03-025N | PDF Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk Materials for Human Food and Requirements for the Disposition of Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle; Meat Produced by Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Meat Recovery (AMR) Systems; Prohibition of the Use of Certain Stunning Devices Used To Immobilize Cattle During Slaughter; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program | |
Preliminary Analysis of Interim
Final Rules and an Interpretive Rule to Prevent the BSE Agent from
Entering the U.S. Food Supply
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| FSIS Technical Service Center -
Common BSE
Questions and Answers Provides answers to frequently asked questions concerning BSE. |
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| List of Commenters | |
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FSIS Notice 10-04
Questions and Answers Regarding the Age Determination of Cattle and Sanitation |
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FSIS Pathology Laboratory Guidebook The Guidebook contains current protocols for analytical tests required by FSIS regulatory activities on meat, poultry and egg products. Specifically, histotechnical methods are presented for sample preparation, processing, sectioning and staining of tissues found in meat, poultry and egg products. |
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FSIS to
Conduct Teaching Workshops on BSE
The workshops are designed to provide an overview of the Agency's new regulatory requirements to owners and operators of small and very small establishments that process cattle or produce products using Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR) and for State plants and State program personnel. See January 16 Constituent Update for details and registration information. |
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FSIS Notice 7-04
Questions and Answers For FSIS Notice 4-04 Regarding FSIS's BSE Regulations |
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| USDA Issues New Regulations to Address BSE | |
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Summary of Calendar Year 2003 Testing
(6 pp) January 2004 Food Safety
and Inspection Service |
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FSIS Notice 5-04 Interim Guidance For Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and Age Determination |
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| FSIS Notice
4-04 Awareness Meeting Regarding New Regulations That Prohibit Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and the Use of Certain Materials From Cattle for Human Food |
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| Advanced Meat
Recovery Systems (7 pp)
Lester M. Crawford, DVM, PhD |
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Advanced Meat Recovery System Survey Project - Final Report
(45 pp) February 21, 1997 Dr. Robert J. Hasiak and Harry Marks |
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| Draft -
AMR Analysis (52 pp) January 8, 2003 |
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| FSIS Directive
7160.1 (4 pp) Meat Produced by Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Meat Recovery Systems |
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| FSIS Directive
7160.2 (3 pp) "Meat" Prepared Using Advanced Mechanical Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Meat Recovery Systems |
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FSIS Directive 7160.3 Revision 1 (6 pp) Advanced Meat Recovery Using Beef Vertebral Raw Materials |
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Draft - Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) Technical Paper: Derivation of Excess Iron Limits for Meat Products Produced by Advanced Recovery Systems (21 pp) |
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| Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) - Petition for Regulatory Action (29 pp) | |
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The Sparks Companies, Inc.
Analysis of Proposed USDA
Regulations (20 pp) |
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Press Release
(2 pp) Public Citizen Critical Energy and Environment Program |
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| Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Risk Assessment | |
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