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The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has partially granted a Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petition regarding nitrate/nitrite claims on meat and poultry products produced using substances that inherently contain nitrates or nitrites. CSPI petitioned FSIS last summer to make a number of changes to the way the Agency approaches “no nitrate/nitrite” and “uncured” claims on products made with natural sources of nitrates/nitrites. On 1o December FSIS responded to CSPI, indicating that the Agency was partially granting CSPI’s petition and planned to conduct rulemaking to change the Agency’s policies toward these claims.