# Presentation: 436483

##                                                 Animal Feed RegulationsforPrevention of BSEFDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

## 1997 BSE Feed Regulation

- Prohibits feeding mammalian protein to ruminants
- Exceptions:  milk products, blood products, gelatin, porcine/equine protein, and plate waste

- Requirements
- Adequate measures for preventing cross-contamination
- maintain receipt, processing, and distribution records for one year (and make available for inspection)
- Label products with caution statement “Do not feed to cattle or other ruminants”

## Strengthening the Feed Ban

- July 14, 2004 published Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
- Announced that FDA intends to propose removal of SRMs from all animal feed
- Requested public comment on 26 questions concerning IRT recommendations and other new feed control measures being considered
- Comment period closed August 13, 2004

## Strengthening the Feed Ban

- Feed controls recommended by the IRT
- All SRM should be excluded from all animal feed including pet food
- Cross-contamination should be prevented throughout the feed chain, including transportation and on the farm
- Current feed ban should be extended to exclude all mammalian and poultry protein from all ruminant feed

## Information Requested by FDA

- SRMs
- Should animal feed list = human food list?
- What portion of the intestines should be removed?
- Economic/environmental impacts of an SRM ban?
- Methods for marking and verification?

## Information Requested by FDA cont’d

- Deads and Downers
- Economic/environmental impact of banning deads/downers?
- Can SRMs be effectively removed from deads/downers?
- Methods for verifying feed does not contain deads/downers?

## Information Requested by FDA cont’d

- Risk reduction and environmental/economic impacts of other feed controls under consideration
- Dedicated facilities
- Blood products
- Poultry litter
- Plate waste
- Tallow (<0.15%) obtained from rendering SRMs
- Ban on all mammalian and avian MBM in ruminant feed
- If SRMs are banned are other controls needed?

## Strengthening the Feed Ban

- Current CVM priorities
- Review comments pertaining to SRMs
- Prepare a Proposed Rule on SRMs
- Review comments on remaining issues

## Infrastructure Challenges

- IRT recommendations cont’d
- “Recognizing the absence of an established infrastructure for the separation and disposal of SRM or MBM the subcommittee accepted that a staged approach may be necessary for implementation”

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter cattle > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Current Disposal of Slaughter By-Products and Dead Stock

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter cattle > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Current Disposal of Slaughter By-Products and Dead Stock

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **tonsils, small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **skull (brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils), spinal cord, vertebral column (DRG), small intestine (distal ileum)

- 12 billion lbs.

- 3 billion lbs.

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter cattle > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Current Disposal of Slaughter By-Products and Dead Stock

**Rendered for **
**non-ruminant feed**
**(15.0 billion lbs.)**

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **tonsils, small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **skull (brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils), spinal cord, vertebral column (DRG), small intestine (distal ileum)

- 12 billion lbs.

- 3 billion lbs.

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter cattle > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Current Disposal of Slaughter By-Products and Dead Stock

**Rendered for **
**non-ruminant feed**
**(15.7 billion lbs.)**

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **tonsils, small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **skull (brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils), spinal cord, vertebral column (DRG), small intestine (distal ileum)

**Deads < 30 months**

- All tissues

**Deads > 30 months**

- 226 million lbs.

- 12 billion lbs.

- 3 billion lbs.

- All tissues

- 466 million lbs.
- (970 million lbs.1)

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter cattle > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Current Disposal of Slaughter By-Products and Dead Stock

**Rendered for **
**non-ruminant feed**
**(15.7 billion lbs.)**

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **tonsils, small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**
**SRMs - **skull (brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils), spinal cord, vertebral column (DRG), small intestine (distal ileum)

**Deads < 30 months**

- All tissues

**Deads > 30 months**

**Other disposal** (e.g. on-farm
- burial, compost, landfill)
**2.06 billion lbs.**

- 472 million lbs.

- 1,594 million lbs.
- (1,143 million lbs.1)

- 226 million lbs.

- 12 billion lbs.

- 3 billion lbs.

- All tissues

- 466 million lbs.
- (970 million lbs.1)

- 1Estimates by Informa Economics August 2004

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Full SRM Ban

**Rendered for **
**non-ruminant feed**
**(13.5 billion lbs.)**

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Full SRM Ban

**Rendered for **
**non-ruminant feed**
**(13.5 billion lbs.)**

**Special disposal**
**1.4 billion lbs.**

**SRMs – **tonsils, small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

- 804 million lbs.

**SRMs - **skull (brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils), spinal cord, vertebral column,  small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

- 624 million lbs.

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Full SRM Ban

**Rendered for **
**non-ruminant feed**
**(13.5 billion lbs.)**

**Deads < 30 months**

- All tissues

**Deads > 30 months**

- 226 million lbs.

- 466 million lbs.

**Special disposal**
**2.1 billion lbs.**

- All tissues

**SRMs – **tonsils, small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

- 804 million lbs.

**SRMs - **skull (brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils), spinal cord, vertebral column,  small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

- 624 million lbs.

## Infrastructure Challenges

**Slaughter cattle < 30 mos.**
**(28.2 million head/yr)**

**Slaughter > 30 mos.**
**(7.1 million head/yr)**

- Full SRM Ban

**Rendered for **
**non-ruminant feed**
**(13.5 billion lbs.)**

**Deads < 30 months**

- All tissues

**Deads > 30 months**

**Other disposal** (e.g. on-farm
- burial, compost, landfill)
**2.06 billion lbs.**

- 1,594 million lbs.

- 226 million lbs.

- 466 million lbs.

**Special disposal**
**2.1 billion lbs.**

- All tissues

**SRMs – **tonsils, small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

- 804 million lbs.

**SRMs - **skull (brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils), spinal cord, vertebral column,  small intestine

**Non-SRM inedible tissues**

- 624 million lbs.

- 472 million lbs.