Proposals to Adopt, Amend or Repeal Certain AHFSS Regulations

California Building Standards Commission (CBSC)

No actions are proposed by the Department of Food and Agriculture, Animal Health and Food Safety Services, at this time. For recent actions taken by the CBSC, please visit their website at: www.bsc.ca.gov.

Animal Care Program

Proposition 12, Farm Animal Confinement

The Animal Confinement regulations are finalized and effective September 1, 2022. For more information visit Animal Care Program.

Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch, Egg Safety and Quality Management Program, Shell Egg Food Safety, Section 1350

Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch, Egg Safety and Quality Management Program, Shell Egg Food Safety, Section 1350 of Title 3 of the California Code of Regulations. The Department is proposing to update its requirements to conform its enclosure requirements for egg-laying hens to Health and Safety Code sections 25990(b)(3) and 25991(e)(4). The 45-day public comment period for this proposal ended on February 25, 2020.

• Shell Egg Notice Documents
• Legislative Analyst Information
• STD 399 Fiscal and Economic Impact

The Department is now publishing a 15-day notice of documents added to the rulemaking file. The public comment period is from April 6 – 21, 2020.

The documents added are:

• Addendum to the Initial Statement of Reasons
• Revised STD 399 [Economic/Fiscal Impact form]
• Report from UCD Davis dated March 5, 2020

For a copy of the 15-day notice and the above-noted documents added to the rulemaking file, please contact: Nancy.grillo@cdfa.ca.gov

Any comments pertaining to the 15-day notice and the documents added to the rulemaking file, must be submitted in writing to: Michael.Abbott@cdfa.ca.gov

Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch, Egg Safety and Quality Management - Cage Free Definition CCR 1354 (d)(3)

The Department is amending the California Code of Regulations (CCR), Title 3, Division 3, section 1354. Specifically, this rulemaking action clarifies and makes specific the requirements to label consumer containers of eggs as “cage free”. This was submitted to Secretary of State on July 1, 2022 and are effective October 1, 2022.

• Regulation Packet
• Regulation Text Approval

Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch - Petition for Rulemaking

The Department of Food and Agriculture (Department), Animal Health and Food Safety Services, Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch, is in receipt of a petition for rulemaking for temporary standards for two products from Lyrical Foods, Inc. The Department has set the matter for a public hearing via written brief. The deadline for submittal of comments is contained in the Notice of Public Hearing posted below.

• Petition from Lyrical Foods, Inc.
• Department Petition Response
• Notice of Public Hearing
• Department Petition Decision

Animal Health Branch – Proposed Rulemaking

Importation of Equidae from Countries Known to Have Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM)

The Department is proposing an amendment to section 810.1 of Article 11, Chapter 2, Division 2, of Title 3 of the California Code of Regulations, to update the address of the currently approved CEM quarantine facility and add a new approved facility for the University of California Davis, Center for Equine Health, both under the control and management of the University of California Davis. The public comment period begins April 15, 2022 and ends on May 31, 2022. Any interested person, or his or her duly authorized representative, may submit written comments relevant to the proposed regulatory action to the Department according to the instructions contained in the Notice posted in the documents below.

Importation of Equidae from Countries Known to Have CEM Proposed Rulemaking Package:

• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
• Proposed Text of the Regulation
• Initial Statement of Reasons

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Code

• California code relating to Animal Health
• For a complete set of the California code, visit the California Food and Agricultural Code web site.

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The California Department of Food and Agriculture strives to support this tradition of innovation and agricultural diversity by working with private industry, academia and public sector agencies. These partnerships allow the department to adapt public policy to a rapidly changing industry — California agriculture.