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17 April 2020  
(20-3047) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 17 April 2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the United States of America .  
 
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TITLE: Cheeses and Related Cheese Products; Proposal To Permit the Use of Ultrafiltered Milk; 
Reopening the Comment Period  
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS  
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period  
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administr ation (FDA or we) is reopening the comment period for 
the proposed rule, published in the Federal Register of 19 October 2005, entitled "Cheeses and 
Related Cheese Products; Proposal to Permit the Use of Ultrafiltered Milk." The proposed rule 
would amend o ur regulations to provide for the use of fluid ultrafiltered (UF) milk in the 
manufacture of standardized cheeses and related cheese products. FDA is reopening the comment 
period to update comments and to receive any new information.  
DATES: FDA is reopenin g the comment period on the proposed rule published on 19 October 2005 
(70 FR 60751), for which we had reopened the comment period as recently as 30 December 2019 
(84 FR 71834). The reopened comment period ended on 30 March 2020. Through this document, 
we are reopening the comment period again. Submit either electronic or written comments by 
13 August 2020.  
The docket folder on Regulations.gov provides access to primary documents for this rulemaking as 
well as comments received: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FDA -2008-P-0086 
Full-texts for previous notifications available as follows:  
G/TBT/N/USA/149: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2005-10-19/html/05 -20874.htm  
and/or https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2005-10-19/pdf/05 -20874.pdf   
G/TBT/N/USA/14 9/Add.1: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2007-12-11/html/E7 -
23981.htm  and/or https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2007-12-11/pdf/E7 -23981.pdf   
G/TBT/N/USA/149/Add.2: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2008-02-11/html/ E8-
2454.htm  and/or https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2008-02-11/pdf/E8 -2454.pdf  
G/TBT/N/USA/149/Add.3: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-12-30/html/2019 -
28145.htm  and/or https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-12-30/pdf/2019 -28145.pdf  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-04-15/html/2020 -07749.htm   
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-04-15/pdf/2020 -07749.pdf   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/USA/20_2747_00_e.pdf  
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