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Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

FDA to reconsider FSMA rules on brewers’ grain

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will revise proposed rules for livestock feed after hearing objections about costs that could be incurred by brewers who sell or donate their spent grain – a natural byproduct of the brewing process – from beer making to local farmers. The rules were proposed as part of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

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PED virus ‘wakeup call’ for US agriculture

In response to the feed industry’s demand for more PED virus information, AFIA dedicated a number of sessions to the disease at its annual Purchasing & Ingredient Suppliers Conference (PISC). During her presentation, “Biosecurity, protecting the feed ingredient supply chain and what you need to know,” Dr. Marty Vanier, director of operations for Kansas State University’s National and Cultural Biosecurity Center, offered an overview of the biosecurity challenges facing U.S. agriculture.

Animal Feed Recalls

Purina Animal Nutrition recalls some poultry feeds

The Purina Animal Nutrition LLC feed plant in Portland, Ore., has initiated a limited recall of certain poultry feeds due to the potential for lower-than-expected vitamin and trace mineral levels. The products were distributed to retailers in Oregon and Washington.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

Drug sponsors request FDA to withdraw drug application approval

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that five drug sponsors holding animal drug applications affected by Guidance For Industry (GFI) #213 have requested that FDA withdraw approval of a collective 19 animal drug applications because the products are no longer manufactured or marketed. Of these 19 applications, 16 are antimicrobials affected by GFI #213.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

Groups request FSMA revision regarding brewers grain

The Beer Institute and the American Malting BarleyAssociation have filed joint comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) in an effort to protect the practice of brewers marketing their brewers’grain to local animal producers.The Beer Institute has been working with members ofCongress, regulators and organizations to present an economic and scientificargument that it is unnecessary for the FDA to add more regulation to brewers’spent grain and other brewing by-products.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

AFIA submits animal feed rule comments to FDA

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) submittedcomments Monday to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on whatAFIA describes as the most massive overhaul of animal food industry regulationssince 1958. The comments, which address the Food Safety Modernization Act(FSMA) "Current Good Manufacturing Practices and Hazard AnalysisRisk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals" rule are more than100 pages and cover five major areas.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

U.S., Canadian pork, feed industries collaborate to study PED virus

More than 60 people representing the U.S. and Canadian pork,feed and other allied industries recently participated in a meeting on the porcineepidemic diarrhea (PED) virus hosted by the National Pork Board, and in collaborationwith the National Pork Producers Council, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians,the American Feed Industry Association, the National Grain and Feed Association,the National Renderers Association and the North American Spray Dried Blood andPlasma Producers, in Des Moines, Iowa. Although the disease does not affect humansor pork safety, it has infected and killed millions of young pigs on farms of allsizes in 27 states since May 2013 and in four Canadian provinces since January.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

FDA announces website to report livestock animal feed problems

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says there is anew website available to the public to report problems related to livestockanimal food.The Livestock Food Reporting portal will accept reportsabout foods made for species considered to be livestock, including but notlimited to, horses, cattle, swine, poultry and fish.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

AFIA believes FDA’s changes will streamline Veterinary Feed Directive process

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has submittedcomments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the Veterinary FeedDirective (VFD). AFIA applauds FDA’s decision to issue the proposed rule, whichaddresses the organization’s concerns with the administrative process ofissuing VFDs, but AFIA also expressed concerns in the details of the rule thatcould potentially have a negative affect the feed industry.

Regulatory Updates

New European feed legislation: mind the language

While the impact of the new European regulations on what must be declared on a compound feed label is easy to see, it may not be so obvious that their approval has also led to the establishment of a specific "compliant" terminology to be used in some of the label sections. Using other terms will result in "wrong" labeling and may be regarded as a non-compliance by European Feed Manufacturers' Federation (FEFAC), which can have consequences in terms of both time (negotiation with national authorities) and money (fines).

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

AFIA says FDA lacks clarity in trans fats phaseout process

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has filed comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the removal of trans fats from America’s food system. Although AFIA has no opinion on FDA’s proposal to phase out partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) from the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) category for human consumption, the organization expressed concern that FDA does not clearly define that the phaseout process only applies to human food for consumption and not animal food.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

Feed industry seeks extended comment period on CGMPs proposed rule

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), the National Renderers Association (NRA), and the Pet Food Institute (PFI) on March 4 submitted an official request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to extend the comment period for its proposed rule on Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals to give animal feed, pet food, and feed ingredient companies more time to review and develop comments on this major proposed regulation.The request seeks an additional 90 days to prepare comments on the issues raised by the proposed rule.

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