Category Archives: Safe Animal Feed Education Program

Focus on Feed Safety: Labeling of Free Choice Feeds

May 2, 2025 CFRP Leave a comment

This quarter’s ‘Focus on Feed Safety’ provides labeling recommendations and special considerations for the hazard analysis of free choice feeds. Free choice is a feeding system by which animals are given unlimited access to supplemental feed such as loose minerals, blocks, and liquid tubs. For many operations in California, free choice supplementation is necessary to provide essential minerals, vitamins, and/or …

Quarterly Tips on Commercial Feed Labeling: Guarantees

February 19, 2025 CFRP Leave a comment

The Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) program has devoted resources to educate industry members on proper labeling practices for commercial livestock feed. Resources include an invitation to email safe@cdfa.ca.gov to receive educational label consultation by a SAFE staff member, as well as publication of the California Commercial Feed Labeling Guide, Label Review Checklist, and Medicated Feed Label Guide. The SAFE Program recognizes the complexity of …

Looking Back: CFRP 2024 Accomplishments

January 27, 2025 CFRP Leave a comment

In 2024, the California Department of Agriculture’s (CDFA) Commercial Feed Regulatory Program (CFRP) 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 2024, CFRP shifted focus to conducting “California Feed Safety Inspections” at commercial feed licensed locations every …

Quarterly Tips on Commercial Feed Labeling: Feeding Directions

December 23, 2024 CFRP Leave a comment

Please Participate in 3-Minute Safe Animal Feed Education 2025 Survey for Feed Industry

November 19, 2024 CFRP Leave a comment

The Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) Program would like your input in prioritizing topics for outreach and education to the feed industry in 2025. SAFE fosters safe manufacturing and use of commercial feed and livestock drugs and voluntary compliance with state and federal laws and regulations through educational resources, trainings, and outreach programs. The anonymous survey below should take less …

Presentation available from Sept. 24 Informational Webinar on FDA Pathways to Market Use of New Animal Feed Ingredients

October 14, 2024 CFRP Leave a comment

The California Department of Food and Agriculture Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) Program hosted an Informational Webinar on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pathways to Market Use of New Animal Feed Ingredients on Sept. 24, 2024. Over 60 California livestock feed stakeholders and researchers registered for the webinar to gain understanding of the processes involved in bringing new and innovative …

SAFE Releases Educational Guidance for Mixer Efficiency Testing

September 19, 2024 CFRP Leave a comment

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Safe Animal Feed Education Program (SAFE) has published a guide outlining how to conduct a mixer study. A mixer study is the chemical analysis of 10 samples from a single batch of formula feed to evaluate uniformity of a feed mixture. The main objective of mixing feed is to ensure each animal …

Quarterly Tips for Commercial Feed Labeling

August 30, 2024 CFRP Leave a comment

The Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) program has devoted resources to educate industry members on proper labeling practices for commercial livestock feed including providing educational label consultation upon request, and publishing the California Commercial Feed Labeling Guide, Label Review Checklist, and Medicated Feed Label Guide. However, there will always be questions and nuances regarding feed labeling. On a quarterly basis, …

CDFA hosts Sept. 24 Informational Webinar on FDA Pathways to Market Use of New Animal Feed Ingredients

August 30, 2024 CFRP Leave a comment

The California Department of Food and Agriculture Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) Program is hosting an Informational Webinar on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pathways to Market Use of New Animal Feed Ingredients. This webinar is intended for California livestock feed stakeholders and researchers to gain understanding of the processes involved in bringing new and innovative feed ingredients to the …

Spanish Versions of Commercial Feed Video Tutorials for Licensing, Reporting Tonnage now Available

June 11, 2024 CFRP Leave a comment

In 2023, the Commercial Feed Regulatory Program (CFRP) released six videos designed to help industry navigate the ExtraView Database, which is used for licensing, reporting tonnage, and payments. The videos are now available in Spanish. These videos available on the CFRP homepage include: