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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration will no longer rely on state feed control officials for help with animal food ingredient approvals after choosing not to renew a long-standing agreement that supported one of its primary review pathways.
The nation’s largest pet food industry group and state regulators are at odds over a measure intended to federalize pet food labeling regulations, while simultaneously upending an array of current state-by-state laws laying out processes for determining what ingredients should be listed and whether marketing claims can be backed up.
Pet food and specialty pet food treats and supplements packaging will more closely resemble human food labels with new, recommended labeling regulations approved for publication by the Association of American Feed Control Officials and sought by the industry.
The pet food industry wants to put the Food and Drug Administration in charge of regulating labels and packaging for dog and cat food, replacing a patchwork of state rules that now exist, but the proposal has raised questions with others in the animal feed sector.
Tracey Forfa, a 30-year veteran of the Food and Drug Administration,
will become the new director of FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. She has been CVM’s acting director since December, when previous director Steven Solomon retired.
The American Feed Industry Association and National Grain and Feed Association are offering support for a Memorandum of Understanding between feed regulators and the Food and Drug Administration at an FDA listening session.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has announced she will not seek reelection, and Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., has been selected to serve as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
The renewable diesel boom has fueled a surge in expected soybean crushing capacity and a need for more production of the crop, though the EPA’s proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volumes and declining credit values for California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard may dampen the fledgling industry’s ambitions.
