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By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Jan. 8 published a concept paper to obtain input from stakeholders on a potential framework for how animal drug sponsors could voluntarily make changes to the approved conditions of use for certain medically important animal antimicrobial drugs to establish a defined duration of use for those indications that currently lack a defined duration of use. The concept paper focuses on medically important animal antimicrobial drugs – drugs important in human medicine – administered through ... Read More

By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed NGFA joined with the California Grain and Feed Association, Pet Food Institute, American Feed Industry Association and North American Renderers Association to submit a statement on Dec. 31 to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) regarding potential amendments to California’s processed pet food regulations. CDPH on Dec. 1 provided a 30-day notice of informal stakeholder engagement that invited interested parties to submit comments related to amending its existing processed pet food regulations. To facilitate comments, CDPH ... Read More

By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA/CVM) on Dec. 15 published its 2019 summary report that recaps domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in food-producing animals. The Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2008 (ADUFA) requires that animal drug companies annually report to FDA the amount of antimicrobial drugs they sell or distribute for use in food-producing animals. ADUFA also requires FDA to issue annual summary reports of these sales and ... Read More

By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Dec. 10 finalized guidance to facilitate consultations between FDA and ingredient sponsors before an animal food additive petition (FAP) or a notice concluding that a substance is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for its intended use in animal food is submitted to the agency. Guidance #262, Pre-Submission Consultation Process for Animal Food Additive Petitions or Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) Notices, provides information about the animal FAP and GRAS notification processes and ... Read More

By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials reviewed Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)-related inspection activity and outlined future compliance initiatives during this week’s Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance’s (FSPCA) annual conference. Glenn Bass, FDA deputy director of human and animal food operations - west, and John Verbeten, FDA acting deputy director of the Office of Enforcement and Import Operations, were keynote presenters during the virtual conference conducted on Dec. 8 and 9, and provided the following ... Read More

By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Dec. 1 issued a constituent update to remind human and animal food facilities to renew their registration with the agency before Dec. 31 and to provide guidance on how to obtain and submit required Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) numbers. FDA stated in the update that it will consider the registration of a food facility to be expired if the facility does not renew its registration by Dec. 31, 2020. Owners and operators of food facilities are to submit their renewal information ... Read More

By Sarah Gonzalez, Director of Communications and Digital Media The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched a new Manual of Good Practices for the Feed Sector on Dec. 1. The publication is “a fully revised, updated and expanded version” of the manual first published in 2010. IFIF and FAO said their objective is to provide practical guidelines to farmers, producers and all stakeholders along the feed value chain to comply with the requirements of the Codex Alimentarius Code of Practice on Good Animal ... Read More

By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Nov. 16 conducted a virtual public meeting to explain details and receive stakeholder feedback on the agency’s previously issued concept paper that outlines a potential revised process and criteria for ranking animal antimicrobial drugs based upon their importance in human medicine. The concept paper explains a potential approach for updating the current list of antimicrobial drugs ranked by their importance in human medicine (commonly referred to as “Appendix A” of FDA’s Guidance for Industry ... Read More

By David Fairfield, Senior Vice President, Feed NGFA submitted an official statement to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Nov. 13 regarding certain aspects of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Strategic Plan 2021-2025. NGFA’s statement primarily focused on proposed activities within the strategic plan to initiate an antimicrobial resistance testing program for animal feed, pet food and associated ingredients, and included the following comments: Monitoring Thermally Processed Pet Food Would Not Provide Meaningful Information: Since ... Read More