Subject:	Chemistry Science Advisory Council (ChemSAC) Meeting Minutes	

Meeting Date:	3 April 2013

To:		HED’s Chemistry Interest Group

From:		HED’s ChemSAC

Attendees:	See Attached

1.  Review of Minutes (03/27/2013)

Draft documents were finalized with minor revisions.

2.  Review of the Analysis of Two Proposed Tropical and Subtropical
Fruit Groups for Edible Peel and Inedible Peel.  

ChemSAC and Canada PMRA agreed with the analysis of the USDA-IR-4
petitions presented by Dr. B. Schneider of the crop grouping focus group
to establish two new tropical fruit groups entitled:  "Tropical and
subtropical fruit group - edible peel 23” and  “Tropical and
subtropical fruit group - inedible peel 24."  

The Tropical and subtropical fruit group - edible peel 23 will have 108
commodities and three crop subgroups.  The four representative
commodities are olive, fig, guava, and date.

Subgroup 23A:  Tropical and Subtropical, Small Fruit, Edible Peel
Subgroup - Representative Commodity:  Olive

Subgroup 23B:  Tropical and Subtropical, Medium to Large Fruit, Edible
Peel Subgroup - Representative Commodities:  Fig and Guava.

Subgroup 23C:  Tropical and Subtropical Palm Fruit, Edible Peel Subgroup
- Representative Commodity:  Date

The Tropical and subtropical fruit group - inedible peel 24 will have
104 commodities and five crop subgroups.  The eight representative
commodities are:  atemoya or sugar apple, avocado,   pomegranate or
banana, dragon fruit, prickly pear, fruit, lychee, passionfruit; and
pineapple. 

Subgroup 24A:  Tropical and Subtropical, Small Fruit, Inedible Peel
Subgroup

Representative Commodity:  Lychee

Subgroup 24B:  Tropical and Subtropical, Medium to Large Fruit, Smooth,
Inedible Peel Subgroup

	Representative Commodities:  Avocado plus Pomegranate or Banana

Subgroup 24C:  Tropical and Subtropical, Medium to Large Fruit, Rough or
Hairy, Inedible Peel Subgroup

	Representative Commodities:  Pineapple plus Atemoya or Sugar apple 

Subgroup 24D:  Tropical and Subtropical, Inedible Peel, Cactus Subgroup 

	Representative Commodities:  Dragon fruit and Prickly pear, fruit

Subgroup 24E:  Tropical and Subtropical, Inedible Peel, Vine Subgroup

	Representative Commodity:  Passionfruit

ChemSAC provided some editorial comments on how to make the
representative commodities clear and these comments were incorporated
above in the crop subgroups.

Additional comments on guidance for changes in commodity definitions
under reregistration were discussed.  Future guidance will be prepared
by ChemSAC members to be discussed at a future meeting.

All supporting documents that were submitted for review and the slide
shows for this analysis will be stored in the ChemSAC minutes database.
Also the complete list of commodities for the two Tropical and
subtropical fruit crop groups and their individual crop subgroups are
listed in these documents.



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