- Safeguarding human food and animal health
- Ensuring feed is safe, unadulterated, and honestly prepared
For consumer protection all feed manufacturers, transporters, and distributors/retailers are subject to random inspections and sampling to assure compliance with state and federal feed safety and labeling regulations.
Check out our 21 CFR 507 Compliance Tool to see if your animal feed firm is required to be in compliance with FDA's Preventitive Controls Rule.
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- Commercial Feed License Application
- Small Package Product Form
- Payment Options (Feed / Fertilizer / Ag Lime Tonnage Fee Collection)
- Have Small Package Products?
- Pay Commercial Feed License
- Pay Small Package Fees
- Due in January for products in packages under 10# sold over the previous year.
- Making in-home pet treats?
- Pay Commercial Feed License
- Small Package Fees
- Due in January for products in packages under 10# sold over the previous year.
- Using raw meat ingredients?
- Call office to speak with a member of the Commercial Feed Program staff, 402-471-2351.
- See Pet Food links down below for more information.
- Reports of Retail Commercial Feed Sales in Nebraska
- CVM GFI #181 Blue Bird Medicated Feed Labels
- CVM GFI #120 Veterinary Feed Directive Regulation Questions and Answers
- CVM GFI #245 Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals
- CVM GFI #246 Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals: Supply-Chain Program
- Mycotoxins
- Guidance for Industry: Fumonisin Levels in Human Foods and Animal Feeds
- Guidance for Industry and FDA: Advisory Levels for Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Finished Wheat Products for Human Consumption and Grains and Grain By-Products used for Animal Feed
- Compliance Policy Guide 683.100 Action Levels for Aflatoxins in Animal Food
- CVM GFI #235 Current Good Manufacturing Practice Requirements for Food for Animals
- Guidance for Industry: Sanitary Transportation of Food
- Draft Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding the Reportable Food Registry as Established by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (Edition 2)
- Draft Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Facility Registration (Seventh Edition) - Revised
- CVM GFI #72 GMP’s for Medicated Feed Manufacturers Not Required to Register and be Licensed with FDA
- FSPCA Preventive Controls for Animal Food (Training and Materials)
- Abbreviated Guide to Creating a Livestock Food Safety Plan Under the Preventive Controls for Animal Food (PCAF) Rule
- FSPCA Example Food Safety Plan
- Frequently Asked Questions on FSMA
- Fact Sheets
- GFI 235: Current Good Manufacturing Practice Requirements for Food for Animals
- GFI 239: DRAFT Human Food By-Products for Use as Animal Food
- GFI 245: DRAFT Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals
- DRAFT Classification of Activities as Harvesting, Packing, Holding, or Manufacturing/Processing for Farms and Facilities
- Qualified Facility Attestation
- AAFCO Official Publication Chapter 6 Public Access – Feed Terms, Common or Usual Ingredient Names, and Ingredient Definitions
- Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards
- Customer-Formula (Custom-Mix) Label Requirements
- FDA Material
- “Helping Animal Producers Understand Medicated Feed Labels” – FDA Video
- “Feed Inspections with Chelsea Mills” – NDA Video
- “NDA’s Commercial Feed Inspections Benefit Consumers and Manufacturers” – NDA Article
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
- Prohibited and Non-Prohibited Material
- Videos
- Brochures
- Producers
- Transporters
- Feed Manufacturers
- Renderers
- FDA Material
Related Links
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- American Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)
- National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA)
- American Feed Industry Association (AFIA)