FDA Extends Comment Period on Salmonella Risk from Tree Nuts

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended until December
16, 2013, the period for submission of comments, scientific data and other
information related to its risk assessment of human salmonellosis associated
with the consumption of tree nuts. Originally published in the July 18 Federal
Register, the assessment seeks to quantify the public health risk associated
with eating tree nuts potentially contaminated with Salmonella and evaluate
the impact of interventions to prevent contamination with the bacterium or
to reduce contamination levels.

Additional information about the risk assessment appears in Issue 491 of this
Update. See Federal Register, October 4, 2013.