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Notices
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 50
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
U.S. Codex Office Codex Alimentarius Commission:
Meeting of the Codex Committee on Food Additives U.S. Codex Office, USDA.
Notice of public meeting and request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The U.S. Codex Office is sponsoring a public meeting on May 11, 2021. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States U.S.
positions to be discussed at the 52nd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives CCFA of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The U.S.
Manager for Codex Alimentarius and the Acting Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs recognize the importance of providing interested parties the opportunity to obtain background information on the 52nd Session of the CCFA and to address items on the agenda.
DATES: The public meeting is scheduled for May 11, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will take place virtually. Documents related to the 52nd Session of the CCFA will be accessible via the internet at the following address: http www.fao.org/
fao-who-codexalimentarius/meetings/
en/. Dr. Paul Honigfort, U.S. Delegate to the 52nd Session of the CCFA, invites U.S. interested parties to submit their comments electronically to the following email address: ccfa@
cfsan.fda.gov.
Call-In-Number: If you wish to participate in the public meeting for the 52nd Session of the CCFA by conference call, please join the Zoomgov Meeting at https fda.zoomgov.com/j/1617528805;
or Dial-in US Toll-free at 833568
8864; Meeting ID: 161 752 8805.

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Registration: Attendees may register to attend the meeting by emailing Dr.
LaShonda Cureton at ccfa@cfsan.fda.gov by May 10, 2021. Early registration is encouraged.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For Further Information about the 52nd Session of the CCFA and the Public Meeting, contact U.S. Delegate, Dr. Paul Honigfort by phone at: +1 240
4021206 or by email at Paul.Honigfort@fda.hhs.gov, or Alternate U.S. Delegate, Dr. Daniel Folmer by phone +1 240 4021274 or email Daniel.Folmer@fda.hhs.gov.
For Further Information about the public meeting Contact: Dr. LaShonda Cureton by phone at +1 2404021351
or by email at Lashonda.Cureton@
fda.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background Codex was established in 1963 by two United Nations organizations, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization. Through adoption of food standards, codes of practice, and other guidelines developed by its committees, and by promoting their adoption and implementation by governments, Codex seeks to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade.
The Terms of Reference of the Codex Committee on Food Additives are:
a To establish or endorse permitted maximum levels for individual food additives;
b to prepare priority lists of food additives for risk assessment by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives;
c to assign functional classes to individual food additives;
d to recommend specifications of identity and purity for food additives for adoption by the Commission;
e to consider methods of analysis for the determination of additives in food;
and f to consider and elaborate standards or codes for related subjects such as the labelling of food additives when sold as such.
The CCFA is hosted by China. The United States attends the CCFA as a member country of Codex.

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Issues To Be Discussed at the Public Meeting The following items on the Agenda for the 52nd Session of the CCFA will be discussed during the public meeting:
Matters Referred by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and other subsidiary bodies Matters of Interest arising from FAO/
WHO and from the 87th Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives JECFA
Proposed draft specifications for identity and purity of food additives arising from the 87th JECFA meeting Comments at Step 3
Endorsement and/or revision of maximum levels for food additives and processing aids in Codex standards Alignment of the food additive provisions of commodity standards:
Report of the Electronic Working Group EWG on Alignment General Standard for Food Additives GSFA: Report of the EWG on the GSFA
General Standard for Food Additives:
Proposals for new and/or revision of food additive provisions replies to Circular Letter CL 2019/40FA
Continuation of the discussion on the relevant provisions for sweeteners associated with Note 161
General information on the availability of data related to nitrates and nitrites replies to CL 2019/49
FA
Proposed draft revision to the International Numbering System INS
for Food Additives CAC/GL 361989
Comments at Step 3
Proposals for additions and changes to the Priority List of Substances proposed for evaluation by JECFA
replies to CL 2019/41FA
Status and analysis of the GSFA
online system in relation to the approach of not listing relevant commodity standards Other Business and Future Work Public Meeting At the May 11, 2021, public meeting, draft U.S. positions on the agenda items will be described and discussed, and attendees will have the opportunity to pose questions and offer comments.
Written comments may be offered at the meeting or sent to Dr. Paul Honigfort, U.S. Delegate for the 52nd Session of the
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