FDA FEED RULE CHANGES LIKELY WON'T PUBLISH FOR WEEKS

Still time to make comments

All evidence indicates the highly anticipated interim final rules making changes to both the FDA ruminant feed rule, as well as to how FDA regulates ruminant byproducts in consumer products will not be published for at least another few weeks.

While the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) press release was issued Jan. 26, the rulemaking has been caught in Office of Management & Budget (OMB) review. FDA is continuing to urge interested parties seeking either clarification or modification of that late January announcement to send in any comments it wishes the agency to consider in its drafting of the interim final rules.

The press release indicated the agency would ban poultry litter and plate waste feeding, as well as ruminant blood products to ruminants. On the human side, specified risk materials would be banned from both human foods and consumer products.