Tag: animal feeds
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Environmental Group Contends FDA Documents Show Doubts re: Antimicrobial Drugs
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has posted to its website documents relating to the use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock feed received from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under a Freedom of Information Act request. According to PEER, internal memos show that FDA is not, as the agency has claimed, working successfully with…
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Congressional Reps Ask FDA for Info on Antibiotics in Distillers Grain Used as Livestock Feed
Referring to a report on the presence of antibiotic residues in distillers grain, an ethanol-production byproduct used as animal feed, U.S. Representatives Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) have requested that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg provide information about the agency’s surveys of these residues and explain why FDA has not…
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Federal Court Orders FDA to Initiate Withdrawal Proceedings on Antibiotics in Animal Feed
A federal magistrate judge in New York has ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin proceedings to withdraw approval for the subtherapeutic use of certain antibiotics in animal feed, agreeing with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a coalition of advocacy organizations that the agency had a statutory duty to hold withdrawal…
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FDA Regulation of Nanotechnology (ABA 2012)
Part II of the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Nanotechnology Project, this recently released book comprehensively considers, by product category, how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews nanotechnology-based products. Shook, Hardy & Bacon Agribusiness & Food Safety Attorney James Andreasen was among those practitioners contributing to the work. Among the chapters are “Color Additives,” “Food…
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NOP Addresses Synthetic Methionine Use in Organic Poultry
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program (NOP) has issued a proposed rule that would regulate the use of synthetic methionine in organic poultry production after a current interim final rule expires on October 1, 2012. According to a February 6, 2012, Federal Register notice, the rule would amend the National List of Allowed…
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FSIS Schedules Codex Meeting on Animal Feed Contaminants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced a January 18, 2012, public meeting in Washington, D.C., to consider draft U.S. positions to be presented during the 6th session of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Animal Feeding of the Codex Alimentarius Commission on February 20-24 in Berne, Switzerland.…
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FDA Rule Requires Color Additive Information on Animal Food Labels
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule requiring animal and pet food labels to list “the common or usual names” of any certified color additives used in the products. Issued in response to the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, the final rule brings animal food labeling in line with…
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EU Member States Endorse Stronger Measures to Prevent Dioxin Contamination in Food, Feed
The European Commission (EC) has reportedly endorsed proposed safety measures aimed at better preventing dioxin contamination in animal food and feed. Prompted by a widespread investigation into an outbreak of the toxin that struck German meat and egg farms in late 2010, the draft regulation will be sent to the European Parliament and the European…