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CFRP completed the 2024/25 Animal Food Safety Contract with FDA. The new contract year began on September 24, 2025, and will end on September 23, 2026. CFRP staff will continue to perform comprehensive inspections at livestock feed facilities to verify compliance with the federal animal food requirements applicable to each firm, including the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) and Medicated Feed rules.
The CFRP was awarded a new Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS) Maintenance cooperative agreement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This new agreement will provide CFRP with $300,000 per year for the next three years to support activities maintaining implementation of the animal feed regulatory program standards, including regulatory updates, inspector training and continuing education, firm inventory maintenance, auditing, industry outreach and more.
CFRP inspectors will once again be assisting the California Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) Laboratory in obtaining feed samples in support of their Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM) agreement with FDA. Last year, CFRP inspectors obtained 50 samples of whole corn, two samples of game bird feed, three samples of dried distillers’ grains, and two samples of soybean meal; sample numbers and types for this year’s agreement will be finalized soon.
The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Annual Meeting, held August 4-6, 2025, in Omaha, Nebraska, was attended in person by Samantha Moran-Defty and Mike Davidson, and virtually by KC Gutenberger. The meeting included sessions on important areas of concern, such as current issues and outreach, education and training, feed and feed ingredient manufacturing, ingredient definitions, inspection and sampling, laboratory methods and services, model bills and regulations, and the proficiency testing program. Samantha served as the voting delegate for California, sat on the Inspection and Sampling Committee and the Education and Training Committee, and participated in the Inspector Guidance Tool Workgroup. KC serves on the Ingredient Definitions Committee, and as the Citrus Products Investigator for AAFCO and participated virtually in the Investigator Lunch, a closed session for the AAFCO Investigators, to discuss current enforcement issues and strategies.
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