Notice2021-19219
Food and Drug Administration New Era of Smarter Food Safety Summit on E-Commerce; Public Meeting; Request for Comments
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September 7, 2021
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing a virtual public meeting entitled "FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Summit on E-Commerce: Ensuring the Safety of Foods Ordered Online and Delivered Directly to Consumers." The purpose of the public meeting is to engage with stakeholders and invite input on various topics pertaining to the implementation of Core Element 3.1 of the New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint. We intend to use information resulting from the public meeting to determine what action(s), if any, should be taken to help ensure the safe production and delivery of human and animal foods sold through new e-commerce business models.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 7, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50130-50132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19219]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2021-N-0929]
Food and Drug Administration New Era of Smarter Food Safety
Summit on E-Commerce; Public Meeting; Request for Comments
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing a
virtual public meeting entitled ``FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety
Summit on E-Commerce: Ensuring the Safety of Foods Ordered Online and
Delivered Directly to Consumers.'' The purpose of the public meeting is
to engage with stakeholders and invite input on various topics
pertaining to the implementation of Core Element 3.1 of the New Era of
Smarter Food Safety Blueprint. We intend to use information resulting
from the public meeting to determine what action(s), if any, should be
taken to help ensure the safe production and delivery of human and
animal foods sold through new e-commerce business models.
DATES: The public meeting will be held over 3 days on October 19, 2021,
from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time; October 20, 2021, from 11:30
a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time, and October 21, 2021, from 11:30 a.m.
to 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Submit either electronic or written comments
on this public meeting by November 20, 2021. See ``Participating in the
Public Meeting'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this
document for registration and other information regarding meeting
participation.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held virtually. For more
information on the public meeting, see: <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered">https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered</a>.
You may submit comments as follows. Please note that late, untimely
filed comments will not be considered. Electronic comments must be
submitted on or before November 20, 2021. The <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> electronic filing system will accept comments until
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of November 20, 2021. Comments
received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions)
will be considered timely if they are postmarked or the delivery
service acceptance receipt is on or before that date.
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted
electronically, including attachments, to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information,
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
<bullet> If you want to submit a comment with confidential
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public,
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').
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Written/Paper Submissions
Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
<bullet> Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for written/paper
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
<bullet> For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified,
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No.
FDA-2021-N-0929 for ``FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Summit on E-
Commerce.'' Received comments, those filed in a timely manner (see
ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and, except for those
submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly viewable at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> or at the Dockets Management Staff between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 240-402-7500.
<bullet> Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' We will review
this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in our
consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the claimed
confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be available for
public viewing and posted on <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Submit both
copies to the Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish your name
and contact information to be made publicly available, you can provide
this information on the cover sheet and not in the body of your
comments and you must identify this information as ``confidential.''
Any information marked as ``confidential'' will not be disclosed except
in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and other applicable disclosure law.
For more information about FDA's posting of comments to public dockets,
see 80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access the information at:
<a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf</a>.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and insert the docket number, found in brackets in
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, 240-402-7500.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Juanita Yates, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition, (HFS-009), Food and Drug Administration, 5001
Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-1731,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1f756a7e71766b7e31667e6b7a6c5f797b7e3177776c31787069"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b312e3a35322f3a75223a2f3e281b3d3f3a75333328753c342d">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In April 2019, we announced the New Era of Smarter Food Safety
initiative and in July 2020, we released the New Era of Smarter Food
Safety Blueprint (see <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/new-era-smarter-food-safety/new-era-smarter-food-safety-blueprint">https://www.fda.gov/food/new-era-smarter-food-safety/new-era-smarter-food-safety-blueprint</a>) (Blueprint). The
Blueprint outlines the effort to modernize approaches to food safety as
we respond to unique demands on our food system and work to ensure the
safety and security of our food supply. This virtual public meeting
(Summit) will focus on Core Element 3.1: Ensure Safety of Food Produced
or Delivered Using New Business Models. Specifically, we invite
discussion and input on human and animal foods sold through Business to
Consumer (B2C) e-commerce. B2C e-commerce is the manufacturing,
packaging, labeling, storage, and delivery of human and animal foods
sold directly to consumers, through commercial transactions conducted
electronically on the internet.
The Summit is an opportunity for us to share our current
understanding of human and animal foods sold through new business
models and hear from the public. The Summit will enhance our knowledge
of possible food safety risks related to these new business models and
help us identify what additional courses of action, if any, are needed
to address potential food safety vulnerabilities.
We invite industry, consumers, consumer and public health
organizations, academia, Federal, State, local, and tribal governments,
foreign governments, and other interested parties to join the
discussion and provide their perspectives on these issues.
II. Topics for Discussion at the Public Meeting
The Summit will address a variety of topics related to human and
animal foods sold through B2C e-commerce, including:
<bullet> Types of B2C e-commerce models (e.g., produce and meal kit
subscription services, ghost kitchens, dark stores);
<bullet> Safety risks associated with foods sold through B2C e-
commerce;
<bullet> Standards of care used by industry to control these safety
risks;
<bullet> Types of delivery models (e.g., third-party delivery,
autonomous delivery models);
<bullet> Regulatory approaches to food sold through B2C e-commerce,
including challenges and gaps that need to be addressed; and
<bullet> Labeling of foods sold through B2C e-commerce.
During the Summit, experts from FDA, industry, academia, consumer
and public health organizations, domestic and foreign governments will
be asked to address these topics. Each day, there will also be an
opportunity for registered participants to ask questions and engage
with these experts, as well as to offer open public comment for those
who select this option when registering (see Part III, ``Participating
in the Public Meeting'').
Before the meeting date, we will post the agenda and additional
background materials on the internet at: <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered">https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered</a>. Registered participants will be notified when
these materials are posted. There will be an opportunity for interested
stakeholders to submit written comments following the meeting.
III. Participating in the Public Meeting
Registration: To register for the public meeting, please visit the
following website to register: <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered">https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered</a>. Please provide complete contact information for each
attendee, including name, title, affiliation, address, email, and
telephone.
This is a virtual public meeting. Registration is free and will be
open through the day of the meeting. Persons interested in attending
this public meeting must register at: <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered">https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered</a>. Upon registering, they will receive a
confirmation email with a link for the public meeting. Approximately
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24 to 48 hours before the event, registrants will receive an email with
the meeting link and a formal calendar invitation.
Request to Provide Open Public Comment: During online registration,
you may indicate if you wish to make open public comments during the
public meeting and which topic(s) you would like to address. All
requests to make public comments must be received by October 8, 2021 at
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. We will do our best to accommodate requests to
make public comments. We are seeking to have a broad representation of
ideas and issues presented at the meeting. Individuals and
organizations with common interests are urged to consolidate or
coordinate their comments. FDA will determine the amount of time
allotted to each commenter, the meeting day, the approximate time open
public comments are to be provided and notify all registrants who
requested to make public comments.
Streaming Webcast of the Public Meeting: This public meeting will
be broadcast via YouTube.
Transcripts: Please be advised that as soon as a transcript of the
public meeting is available, it will be accessible at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. It may be viewed at the Dockets Management Staff
(HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061,
Rockville, MD 20850. A link to the transcript will also be available on
the internet at: <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered">https://www.fda.gov/food/workshops-meetings-webinars-food-and-dietary-supplements/new-era-smarter-food-safety-summit-e-commerce-ensuring-safety-foods-ordered-online-and-delivered</a>.
Dated: August 31, 2021.
Lauren K. Roth,
Acting Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2021-19219 Filed 9-3-21; 8:45 am]
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