FDA Information Collection Focuses on Animal Feed Manufacturers

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced an information
collection requiring “renderers, feed manufacturers, and others involved in
feed and feed ingredient manufacturing and distribution to maintain written
procedures specifying the cleanout procedures or other means, and specifying
the procedures for separating products that contain or may contain
protein derived from mammalian tissue from all other protein products from
the time of receipt until the time of shipment.”Intended to ensure compliance
with regulations that prohibit certain animal proteins in ruminant feed
to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the information
collection will allow inspection personnel to confirm that an individual
firm’s written procedures have been followed at the time of inspection.
FDA has estimated that this information collection will involve an average
annual burden of 14 hours per recordkeeping. Comments are requested by
September 26, 2013. See Federal Register, August 17, 2013.