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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/843
4 December 2003
(03-6443)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   US Food and Drug Administration
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Poultry, fruits and vegetables. (HS Chapter 1.0105, Chapter 7 & 8)
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Trading partners
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Vulcan Chemicals, Filing
of Food Additive Petition; Notice. (Federal Register Vol. 68, pages 67195-67196; availablein English)
6. Description of content:  FDA is announcing that Vulcan Chemicals has filed a petition
proposing that the food additive regulations for chlorine dioxide in 21 CFR 173.300 be
amended to provide for an additional method for producing the additive.
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[  ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or di sease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Notice of filing in
Federal Register (FR 67195; available in English)
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be determined.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined.G/SPS/N/USA/843
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12. Final date for comments:  Comments will be accepted at anytime after publication of the
notice of filing; however, if a final rule is  promulgated, it will address only those comments
that were received prior to publication of the final rule.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:   Submit written comments on the document to the Dockets
Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Room 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, U.S.A.  It is possible to submit electronic comments to:
http://www.fda.gov/dockets/ecomments .  Submit comments by indicating DOCKET
Number 2003F-0535  and Title of document Vulcan Chemicals; Filing of Food Additive
Petition .
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:  United States
SPS Enquiry Point, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Room 5545, Washington, DC  20250.
Tel (202) 720-1301, fstsd@usda.gov .  Complete text can be also be found on the Internet
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/ohrms/index.cfm  by looking under DOCKET No.
2003F-0535 .