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May 14, 2008
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Holiday Inn Gaithersburg
2 Montgomery Village Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD  20978
301-948-8900

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is holding a public meeting to cover changes made to the Animal Feed Safety System (AFSS) project since last year’s public meeting, and to present work-in-progress on a method for ranking feed hazards according to the risks they pose to animal and public health and a risk-based method for prioritizing feed establishment inspections.  

This is the 5th in a series of Animal Feed Safety System (AFSS) Public Meetings.   The model being developed for assessing risks from feed hazards  consists of two components: 1) Health Consequence Scoring and 2) Exposure Scoring. At this meeting the Agency will describe how the two components are combined to arrive at a ranking of risks of the more common hazards in swine feed.  FDA is also using risk-based criteria for deciding where best to focus its inspectional resources.  A brief presentation will be made at this meeting showing progress to date as it applies to feed establishment inspections. 

The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, Gaithersburg, MD, on Tuesday, May 14, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Please contact Nanette Milton, at 240-453-6840, or email: nanette.milton@fda.hhs.gov if you would like to attend the meeting.  Send registration information (including name, title, firm name, address, telephone, and fax number), to the contact person.  The registration form is posted below.  Due to limited meeting space, registration will be required. We strongly encourage early registration. If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please contact Nanette Milton (see information listed above) no later than May 1, 2008.

If you have further questions regarding the subject of the meeting, contact Zoe Gill at 240-453-6867 or by email: zoe.gill@fda.hhs.gov.

Agenda

AFSS Meeting Page hyper-link text - Draft Agenda

Federal Register Notice

• Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0189, CVM 200821.  Meeting to Present Changes to the Animal Feed Safety System Project and the Ranking of Feed Hazards According to the Risks They Pose to Animal And Public Health; Part 3: Swine Feed Example; Public Meeting.  Pages  21355-21357 [FR Doc. 08–1154]  [TXT] [PDF] [PRE-PUB] Public meeting on May 14, 2008 Comments due June 13, 2008 

CVM Update

• FDA Plans 5th Public Meeting on Animal Feed Safety System, April 21, 2008

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