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Recent Posts
- Focus on Feed Safety: Labeling of Free Choice Feeds
- Quarterly Feed Update Newsletter: Issue 22 Spring 2025
- Reminder: Commercial Feed Regulatory Program Late Fees and Administrative Penalties
- Follow CDFA Animal Health Branch for updates on H5N1 Bird Flu
- Commercial Feed Regulatory Program Releases 2024 Sample Report
CDFA ANNOUNCES VACANCIES ON FEED INSPECTION ADVISORY BOARD
Español SACRAMENTO, February 1, 2024 – The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announces three vacancies on the Feed Inspection Advisory Board (FIAB). This board makes regulatory and enforcement recommendations to CDFA to help ensure that commercial feed inspections contribute to a clean and wholesome supply of milk, meat and eggs. The FIAB vacancies are for three commercial feed …
Subscribe to Receive New Email Version of Quarterly Feed Update Newsletter – Previous Newsletter Archive Found Here
Beginning in 2024, the Commercial Feed Regulatory Program (CFRP) Quarterly Feed Update Newsletter will be modernized from a pdf file to an email newsletter sent to subscribers. The new Quarterly Feed Update will contain links to all blog posts, articles and updates from the previous quarter published individually to the CFRP Run of the Mill Blog. To receive email updates, …
Looking Back: CFRP 2023 Accomplishments
In 2023, 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 Meeting program and contract goals, CFRP obtained 747 total samples with an overall violation rate of 21% …
Notice to Industry: Novel and Not Currently Approved Feed and Livestock Drugs
The Commercial Feed Regulatory Program and Livestock Drugs Program have released a Notice to Industry. Please view on the Industry Notices Webpage, or directly at the following link: Novel and Not Currently Approved Feed and Livestock Drugs Notice to Industry
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Detected in Commercial Flocks in Stanislaus County, California
Please view the following announcement from https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/Animal_Health/Avian_Influenza.html: Sacramento, CA December 6, 2023 – Following an investigation by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and rapid disease detection by California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial flocks in …
2024 SAFE Survey for Industry Now Open
The Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) Program would like your input in prioritizing topics for outreach and education to the feed industry in 2024. 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 …
New Safe Animal Feed Education (SAFE) Webpage Offers Feed Ingredient Information and Resources
The SAFE Program has developed a new educational website for all things feed and feed ingredients. Included are resources and educational materials regarding feed ingredient definitions, feed ingredient and new animal drug approval processes, and annual program reports. SAFE publishes annual reports including the mycotoxin report, the Commercial Feed Regulatory Program (CFRP) annual sample report, and the CFRP tonnage report. …
Commercial Feed Video Tutorials for Licensing, Reporting Tonnage Now Available
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. Industry has expressed struggles with navigating the database, which has led to many updates and changes to the system in recent years. These “How-To” videos explain basic requirements and steps to meet all quarterly …
New Guidance Available for Commercial Feed Licensing and Tonnage Reporting
The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Commercial Feed Regulatory Program recently released five new guidance documents to help industry understand when a commercial feed license is needed, who pays inspection tonnage tax, how to apply for a license, and how to report tonnage. The program is also working on updating “how-to videos” for navigating the ExtraView Database for license …
Notice to Industry: Damaged Feed
With the impacts of Tropical Storm Hilary in southern California, the Commercial Feed Regulatory Program is again sharing this notice to industry, original date April 2023. https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/ffldrs/pdfs/2023/damaged_feed_nti_april_2023.pdf