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Looking Ahead: What to Expect from CFRP and SAFE in 2026
Inspection and Sampling CFRP will continue to focus inspection efforts on “California Feed Safety Inspections” at commercial feed licensed locations every 2-5 years, depending on priority determined by licensee operations. These comprehensive inspections cover Preventive Controls (PC) for Animal Food, Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP), and other applicable requirements such as medicated feed CGMPs, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) rule, …
Looking Back: CFRP and SAFE 2025 Accomplishments
In 2025, the California Department of Agriculture’s (CDFA) Commercial Feed Regulatory Program (CFRP) and Safe Animal Feed Education Program (SAFE) continued work to ensure feed safety, food safety, and quality of commercial feed in California. Inspectors and staff met goals and embraced changes throughout the last year. Inspection and Sampling In 2025, CFRP completed a second year of conducting “California …
SAFE Hosts “Preventive Controls Qualified Individual” Training
On December 3-4, 2025, the Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) Program hosted its 9th annual Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) training in Modesto, CA. The two-day training was attended by 21 participants who successfully completed a Part 1 online training portion prior to attending the in-person interactive Part 2. The Food Safety Modernization Act requires that certain activities must be …
Notice to Industry: Damaged Feed
The Commercial Feed Regulatory Program has released a Notice to Industry regarding damaged feed.
Quarterly Feed Update Newsletter: Issue 24 Fall 2025
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Welcome CFRP Inspector Justin Jacobson
Environmental Scientist Justin Jacobson started with the Commercial Feed Regulatory Program (CFRP) in September as the new feed inspector for the San Joaquin Valley area. Jacobson is from Oakdale, CA, and grew up ranching and working on dairy farms. After graduating high school, Justin enlisted in the Marine Corps and has a degree in Animal Science from Fresno State. As …
Congratulations Mike Davidson on Retirement
Please join the Commercial Feed Regulatory Program (CFRP) in congratulating Supervising Special Investigator Mike Davidson on his well-deserved retirement this September. CFRP thanks Davidson for his 40 years of exemplary service to California’s commercial agriculture industry, and leadership to the CFRP, Safe Animal Feed Education Program (SAFE) and Livestock Drug Program (LDP). Davidson was influential in training nearly all current …
BLENDED PREVENTIVE CONTROL QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL TRAINING
December 3-4, 2025 The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Safe Animal Feed Education Program will be hosting a Blended Preventive Control Qualified Individual Training December 3-4, 2025, in Modesto, CA. Priority will be given to firms that currently do not have a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual. The training will be capped at 20 participants. Reservations can be made between 9/19/2025 and …
CDFA ANNOUNCES VACANCIES ON FEED INSPECTION ADVISORY BOARD TECHNICAL ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE
SACRAMENTO, September 2, 2025 – The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announces two vacancies on the Feed Inspection Advisory Board Technical Advisory Subcommittee (TASC). This subcommittee provides technical and scientific advice to the Feed Inspection Advisory Board and CDFA on animal food nutrition, safety and efficacy data review of new and unapproved feed ingredients, research project oversight and …
Quarterly Feed Update Newsletter: Issue 23 Summer 2025
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