NGFA Feed News

• FDA issues summary report on antimicrobials sold/distributed in 2017

  By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Dec. 20 released its 2017 Summary Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed for Use in Food-Producing Animals that shows domestic sales and di… [Continue Reading...]

• FSMA seminar scheduled for January

  The NGFA and Kansas State University are teaming up to present another Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) training course on Jan. 29-31 in Manhattan, Kan. The course, co-led by NGFA Senior Vice President of Feed Services Dave Fairfield, is targeted… [Continue Reading...]

• NGFA provides comments on FDA’s draft guidance for FSMA supply-chain program

  NGFA has submitted several recommendations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would clarify the agency’s draft animal food supply-chain program guidance being implemented under the Food Safety Modernization Act. FDA’s draft guida… [Continue Reading...]

• FDA finalizes guidance on mandatory recall authority

  By Dave Fairfield, Senior Vice President of Feed Services The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Nov. 5 released a final guidance that provides information about the agency’s mandatory recall authority established under the Food Safety Mode… [Continue Reading...]

• Walmart executive to replace Ostroff in foods post at FDA

  The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, Stephen Ostroff, will retire Jan. 5 and be replaced by Frank Yiannas, vice president of food safety and health for Walmart. Yiannas, who will join FDA n… [Continue Reading...]