The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its proposed rule on Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Prevention Controls for Food for Animals under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
FDA said it is taking this action “to provide greater assurance that animal food is safe and will not cause illness or injury to animals or humans and is intended to build an animal food safety system for the future that makes modern, science and risk-based preventive controls the norm across all sectors of the animal food system.”
Hogan Lovells has prepared a memo on the proposed FDA rule, which is available here. The memo provides an overview of the proposal, with a focus on the impact for facilities that divert human food or supply “waste” from human food production (for example, by-products that may not be edible for humans or lack nutritional value for humans) for use in animal food.
A copy of the Federal Register notice is available here. Electronic or written comments on the proposed rule are due by February 26, 2014.
