Lowfat and Skim Milk Products, Lowfat Cottage Cheese: Revocation of Standards of Identity

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responding to objections and is denying the requests that it received for a hearing on the final rule removing the standards of identity for lowfat milk and skim milk as well as those for other lower-fat dairy products. After reviewing the objections to the final rule, the agency has concluded that the objections do not raise issues of material fact that justify granting a hearing. Therefore, FDA is confirming the effective date for the final rule. The final rule was based, in part, on petitions filed jointly by the Milk Industry Foundation and the Center for Science in the Public Interest and on a petition filed by the American Dairy Products Institute. This action is also part of the agency's ongoing review of existing regulations under President Clinton's Regulatory Reinvention Initiative.