{"abstract":"The Food Safety and Inspection Service is announcing the availability of the Agency's current safety and security guidelines for the transportation and distribution of meat, poultry, and egg products. These guidelines were developed to assist facilities and shippers of all sizes to improve food safety and security in the handling of FSIS- regulated products. These guidelines include measures to improve food security during the loading, transport, in-transit storage, and unloading of meat, poultry, and egg products. In these guidelines, FSIS strongly recommends that shippers and receivers, as well as transporters, of these products develop controls for ensuring the security of products through all phases of distribution. Such controls are necessary to protect the products from intentional, as well as unintentional, contamination. The Agency has decided to collect and analyze data on these transportation guidelines, which include both food safety and food security components, and determine whether there is a need to adopt any of these guidelines as regulations. Consequently, in this notice, FSIS is asking a series of questions about the transportation guidelines to solicit information from interested parties.","action":"Notice of Availability; Request for public comments and information.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","name":"Agriculture Department","id":12,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/agriculture-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/12","parent_id":null,"slug":"agriculture-department"},{"raw_name":"Food Safety and Inspection Service","name":"Food Safety and Inspection Service","id":201,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/food-safety-and-inspection-service","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/201","parent_id":12,"slug":"food-safety-and-inspection-service"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2003/08/04/03-19659.html","cfr_references":[],"citation":"68 FR 45789","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":"2003-10-03","correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"Submit written comments on the transportation guidelines and answers to the questions to the FSIS Docket Room no later than October 3, 2003.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":["Docket No. 03-015N"],"dockets":[],"document_number":"03-19659","effective_on":null,"end_page":45790,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2003/08/04/03-19659.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/08/04/03-19659/fsis-safety-and-security-guidelines-for-the-transportation-and-distribution-of-meat-poultry-and-egg","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/03-19659?publication_date=2003-08-04","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2003-08-04/03-19659/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":2,"page_views":{"count":321,"last_updated":"2026-08-25 04:15:04 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2003-08-04/pdf/03-19659.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":null,"publication_date":"2003-08-04","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2003/08/04/03-19659.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{},"regulation_id_numbers":[],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{},"regulations_dot_gov_url":null,"significant":null,"signing_date":null,"start_page":45789,"subtype":null,"title":"FSIS Safety and Security Guidelines for the Transportation and Distribution of Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products; Notice of Availability","toc_doc":"Meat, poultry, and egg products; transportation and distribution safety and security guidelines","toc_subject":"Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:","topics":[],"type":"Notice","volume":68}