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By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services Researchers at Kansas State University have published results from a study that evaluated the infectious dose of African swine fever virus (ASFV) when it is consumed in liquid or feed. The “ahead-of-print” research article is posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. The results of the study demonstrated that ASFV can be experimentally transmitted through liquid or feed. The research reported that the minimum infectious dose (MID) of ASFV required to result in infection of greater than one pig after ... Read More

By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made a new online training course available for facilities that are required to comply with the agency’s final rule for Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration. FDA developed the new course – Intentional Adulteration (IA) Identification and Explanation of Mitigation Strategies – through a partnership with the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance’s (FSPCA) Intentional Adulteration Subcommittee. The course provides one way to meet the IA rule’s ... Read More

By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Feb. 8 announced the availability of a final guidance for industry and FDA staff regarding the use, content and circumstances for issuance of public warnings and public notification of recalls. FDA’s intent in issuing the guidance, entitled “Public Warning and Notification of Recalls under 21 CFR Part 7, Subpart C,” is to increase and expedite the appropriate and accurate use of public warnings and public notification and to increase public health protection by better informing the ... Read More

By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The generally recognized as safe (GRAS) approval process for animal feed and pet food ingredients was a major discussion topic at the annual meeting of the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) conducted Jan. 21-23 in Savannah, Ga. Discussion about the GRAS approval process centered around ingredients being marketed under “independent conclusions of GRAS” (ICG) – an approval process established and allowed by federal law, but that does not involve direct oversight by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... Read More

By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Dec. 20 released its 2017 Summary Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed for Use in Food-Producing Animals that shows domestic sales and distribution of all medically important antimicrobials intended for use in food-producing animals decreased by 33 percent between years 2016 and 2017. The 2017 Summary Report also shows that domestic sales and distribution of all medically important antimicrobials decreased 41 percent since 2015 (the peak year of sales/distribution) and ... Read More

NGFA has submitted several recommendations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would clarify the agency’s draft animal food supply-chain program guidance being implemented under the Food Safety Modernization Act. FDA’s draft guidance, when finalized, is intended to assist animal food facilities in complying with the requirements of the agency’s final rule for Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals (Animal Food Rule) for establishing and implementing a supply-chain program for their suppliers. In the ... Read More

By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Nov. 5 released a final guidance that provides information about the agency’s mandatory recall authority established under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FSMA provided FDA mandatory recall authority for foods if there is a reasonable probability that the food is adulterated or misbranded under FDA regulations, and that the food could cause serious illnesses or death. Under the authority, FDA is to give the responsible party an opportunity to conduct a voluntary recall ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, Stephen Ostroff, will retire Jan. 5 and be replaced by Frank Yiannas, vice president of food safety and health for Walmart. Yiannas, who will join FDA next month, will hold a different role and title than Ostroff. As the deputy commissioner for food policy and response, he will fit within an agency reorganization that includes an Office of Food Policy and Response to focus on food safety. Ostroff first joined FDA in 2013 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he was ... Read More

By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will conduct a webinar on Oct. 25 from 1- 2 p.m. Eastern to provide food facility registrants with information regarding the 2018 biennial registration renewal that began Oct. 1. The registration requirement applies to domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold (store) food for human or animal consumption in the United States. Among the facilities required to register with FDA are grain elevators, feed mills, flour mills, corn and oilseed processors, ... Read More