Sodium Citrate as a Tripe Denuding Agent

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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to amend the Federal meat inspection regulations to permit the use of sodium citrate in solution to denude beef stomachs of mucous membranes. In 1990, a manufacturer of processing aids and other direct food ingredients petitioned the Food and Drug Administration and FSIS to approve the use of several compounds, including sodium citrate, for use in denuding tripe. FSIS has reviewed the data and other information submitted by the petitioner and has determined that the proposed use of sodium citrate would not result in product adulteration or misbranding. The proposed regulation would make available to meat processors an additional, alternative tripe-denuding formulation that would contain sodium citrate as an ingredient. The sodium citrate solution would be as effective as existing tripe-denuding agents, but would be less objectionable to workers than the agents now in use. The sodium citrate-containing formulation would contribute to improved tripe production.