Grassroots Regulatory Partnership Meeting; Southeast Region, New Orleans and Nashville Districts; Seafood Industry

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (Office of External Affairs, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Office of the Southeast Region, New Orleans and Nashville Districts, and Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition) is announcing a free public meeting as a followup to a meeting held in April 1995. The New Orleans and Nashville Offices of FDA will meet with interested persons in the States of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee to address specific issues of concern to the seafood processing industry, other stakeholders, and FDA. Because the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference addressed the issue of Vibrio vulnificus in raw oysters, this meeting will not cover that issue. Any other seafood issue will be open for discussion. The agency is holding this meeting to promote the President's initiative for a partnership approach between front-line regulators and the people affected by the work of regulatory agencies, and to create local partnerships.