WASHINGTON - USDA said it wanted to simplify and combine some sanitation requirements for meat and poultry processing plants.
In a Federal Register notice, the agency's Food Safety and Inspection Service said it proposed to eliminate unnecessary differences between meat and poultry sanitation requirements as part of the agency's ongoing effort to streamline regulations.
Public comments on the proposal will be accepted until Oct. 24.
In late 1995, the USDA began reviewing regulations to improve and modernize food safety regulations.
"There are unnecessary differences between the sanitation requirements for meat and poultry establishments," the agency said. "Some of the existing sanitation requirements are no longer needed in light of the agency's recently finalized Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) requirements."
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