The Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a guidance for professionals in the food industry on how to request a waiver of food safety and regulatory requirements to allow for testing of new technology.
The Guidance on Requesting a Waiver of Food Safety and Inspection Service Regulatory Requirements advises meat and poultry establishments, egg production plants, companies that manufacture and sell technology to official establishments, and other interested parties, about the procedure for obtaining a regulatory waiver to test new technology for a limited period.
This procedure forms part of what the FSIS calls its "flexible procedures to foster the development and use of new technologies" in meat packing and egg firms, which afford companies some leeway in introducing new processing and production methods, while maintaining food safety.
Some of the information is already contained in the FSIS document Guidance Procedures for Notification and Protocol Submission of New Technology (February 2004). However, with the new guidance, the information is presented in a more targeted and concise manner.
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