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Since 2023 CFRP has performed a heavy metal screen on mineral premix samples which includes analysis of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury.
CFRP completed the 2025/26 Animal Food Safety Contract with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new contract year began on September 24, 2026, and will end on September 23, 2027. 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.
CFRP maintained full implementation of Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS). CFRP completed the first of a three-year maintenance cooperative agreement from FDA, which provides CFRP with $300,000 per year 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 22 samples of whole corn, nine canola, and three dried distillers’ grains (DDG). This year’s agreement consists of 50 samples of whole corn, nine canola, and three DDG.
The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Annual Meeting held August 26-28, 2026, in San Diego, California was attended by most of the CFRP team due to being held in-state.
Precluding the meeting, AAFCO hosted a Medicated Feed Labeling Workshop and SAFE’s KC Gutenberger presented “State Perspectives on Medicated Feed Labels.” The Annual 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 Moran-Defty served as the voting delegate for California, sat on the Inspection and Sampling Committee, the Education and Training Committee, the Enforcement Issues Committee, and participated in the Inspector Guidance Tool Workgroup. KC Gutenberger serves on the Ingredient Definitions Committee, Animal Feed Committee, and as the Citrus Products Investigator and Human Food By-Products Investigator for AAFCO and participated in the Investigator Lunch, a closed session for the AAFCO Investigators, to discuss current enforcement issues and strategies.
 CFRP team members attend the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Annual Meeting held August 26-28, 2026, in San Diego.
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