(a) Review and evaluationThe advisory panel known as the “Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel” established by section 679a of this title shall review and evaluate, as the panel considers necessary, the adequacy, necessity, safety, cost-effectiveness, and scientific merit of—
(1)
inspection procedures of, and work rules and worker relations involving Federal employees employed in, plants inspected under this chapter;
(2)
informal petitions or proposals for changes in inspection procedures, processes, and techniques of plants inspected under this chapter;
(3)
formal changes in poultry inspection regulations promulgated under this chapter, whether in notice, proposed, or final form; and
(b) Reports
(2) Reports on formal changes
In the case of a report concerning a formal change in poultry inspection regulations, the report shall be made within the time limits prescribed for formal comments on such changes.
(Pub. L. 85–172, § 30, as added Pub. L. 104–127, title IX, § 918(a)(2), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1190.)