Relative Risk to Public Health From Foodborne Listeria Monocytogenes Among Selected Categories of Ready-to-Eat Foods; Draft Risk Assessment Document and Risk Management Action Plan; Availability; Extension of Comment Period

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in cooperation with the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published a notice of availability of a draft risk assessment on the relationship between foodborne Listeria monocytogenes and human health and a proposed risk management action plan for L. monocytogenes in the Federal Register of January 19, 2001. Interested persons were given until March 20, 2001, to comment on these documents. Because a public meeting to receive comments on these documents has been scheduled close to the end of the comment period and in response to the requests of the National Food Processors Association and the LM Working Group for an extension of the comment period, FDA and FSIS are extending the comment period until May 21, 2001.