Revocation of Food Standards for 11 Products Not Currently Sold

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES <SUBAGY>Food and Drug Administration</SUBAGY> <CFR>21 CFR Parts 145 and 155</CFR> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. FDA-2025-N-1184]</DEPDOC> <RIN>RIN 0910-AJ06</RIN> <SUBJECT>Revocation of Food Standards for 11 Products Not Currently Sold</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Food and Drug Administration, HHS. <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Proposed rule. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is proposing to revoke 11 food standards for foods that are no longer sold in the United States. FDA is taking this action as we tentatively conclude these standards are no longer necessary to promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers. This action, if finalized, will remove obsolete rules to possibly reduce unnecessary regulatory requirements. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Either electronic or written comments on the proposed rule or its companion direct final rule must be submitted by August 18, 2025. If FDA receives any timely significant adverse comments on the direct final rule with which this proposed rule is associated, we will publish a document withdrawing the direct final rule within 30 days after the comment period ends, and we will then proceed to respond to comments under this proposed rule using the usual notice and comment procedures. </EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> 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 August 18, 2025. The <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> electronic filing system will accept comments until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of August 18, 2025. 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. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Electronic Submissions</HD> Submit electronic comments in the following way: • <E T="03">Federal eRulemaking Portal:</E> <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov.</E> Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted electronically, including attachments, to <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> will be posted to the docket unchanged. 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For more information about FDA's posting of comments to public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access the information at: <E T="03">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.</E> <E T="03">Docket:</E> For access to the docket to read background documents or the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> 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. <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Claudine Kavanaugh, Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling, Human Foods Program, Food and Drug Administration, 5001 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-2371; Meadow Platt, Office of Policy, Regulations, and Information, Human Foods Program, Food and Drug Administration, 5001 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-2378. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Table of Contents </HD> <EXTRACT> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">I. Executive Summary</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">A. Purpose of the Proposed Rule</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">B. Summary of the Major Provisions of the Proposed Rule</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">C. Legal Authority</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2"> D. Costs and Benefits </FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">II. Background</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">III. Description of the Proposed Rule</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">IV. Economic Analysis of Impacts</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">A. Introduction</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP1-2">B. Overview of Benefits, Costs, and Transfers</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">V. Analysis of Environmental Impact</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">VI. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">VII. Federalism</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-2">VIII. Consultation and Coordination With Indian Tribal Governments</FP> </EXTRACT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">I. Executive Summary</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">A. Purpose of the Proposed Rule</HD> This action proposes to remove regulations that FDA believes are obsolete and no longer necessary to promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers. This proposed rule is a companion to the direct final rule published elsewhere in this issue of the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . This companion proposed rule provides the procedural framework to finalize the rule in the event the direct final rule receives any significant adverse comment and is withdrawn. The comment period for this companion proposed rule runs concurrently with the comment period for the direct final rule. Any comments received in response to this companion proposed rule will also be considered as comments regarding the direct final rule. <HD SOURCE="HD2">B. Summary of the Major Provisions of the Proposed Rule</HD> This proposed rule would revoke: <HD SOURCE="HD3">Part 145—Canned Fruits</HD> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.116: Artificially sweetened canned apricots</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.126: Artificially sweetened canned cherries</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.131: Artificially sweetened canned figs</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.134: Canned preserved figs</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.136: Artificially sweetened canned fruit cocktail</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.140: Canned seedless grapes</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.171: Artificially sweetened canned peaches</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.176: Artificially sweetened canned pears</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 145.181: Artificially sweetened canned pineapple</FP> The proposed revocation of the standards for artificially sweetened canned fruit applies only to canned fruit made with saccharin and/or sodium saccharin since these are the only products covered under the standard. The proposed revocation does not apply to any other reduced sugar canned fruit products. <HD SOURCE="HD3">Part 155—Canned Vegetables</HD> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 155.131: Canned field corn</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">• 155.172: Canned dry peas</FP> <HD SOURCE="HD2">C. Legal Authority</HD> We are issuing this proposed rule to revoke the standards for the listed products based on our authority under section 401 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 341), which directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to issue regulations fixing and establishing for any food a reasonable definition and standard of identity, quality, or fill of container whenever, in the Secretary's judgment, such action will promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers. This pr ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 23k characters. 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